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LEGO® bricks as building blocks for centimeter-scale biological environments

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Lind, K., Sizmur, T. orcid id iconORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9835-7195, Benomar, S., Miller, A. and Cademartiri, L. (2014) LEGO® bricks as building blocks for centimeter-scale biological environments. PLoS ONE, 9 (6). ISSN 1932-6203 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100867

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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 structural obstacles and chemical gradients can be precisely engineered to mimic soil.

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Item Type Article
URI https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40795
Identification Number/DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0100867
Refereed Yes
Divisions No Reading authors. Back catalogue items
Publisher Public Library of Science
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