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LEGO® bricks as building blocks for centimeter-scale biological environments: the case of plants.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2014

Lind Kara R, Sizmur Tom, Benomar Saida, Miller Anthony, Cademartiri Ludovico

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LEGO bricks are commercially available interlocking pieces of plastic that are conventionally used as toys. We describe their use to build engineered environments for cm-scale biological systems, in particular plant roots. Specifically, we take advantage of the unique modularity of these building blocks to create inexpensive, transparent, reconfigurable, and highly scalable environments for plant growth in which...

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PMID: 24963716
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100867
PMCID: PMC4071033

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