In August of last year, we released a story about how chief scientist of synthetic biology at the NASA Ames Research Center, Lynn Rothschild, and her PhD student, Diana Gentry, were working on a project to 3D print “biomaterials out of thin air.” The team has been hard at work, using the $100,000 from their NIAC grant and have relayed some of their progress towards 3D printing synthetic biomaterials using cellular arrays. Not dissimilar from other methods of bioprinting, the researchers believe that they can 3D print cellular arrays that will secrete organic materials like wood, mineral parts of bone and tooth enamel. As Rothschild puts it to TechCrunch, “Cells produce an enormous array of products on the Earth, everything from wool to silk to rubber to cellulose, you name it, not to mention meat and plant products and the things that we eat.…
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