Episode description

Programmable materials, living materials, cell-derived materials, these are all things we talk about in today's episode with Prof. Allen Liu. We discuss how the separate fields of Biomaterials and Synthetic Biology can come together to produce enhanced Biomaterials that can be tailored to have specific properties that could fix many problems. These living biomaterials are an exciting prospect and can provide easily tunable characteristics, allowing access to potentially new arrangements of material properties.