{"id":18621,"date":"2018-11-21T10:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=18621"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T10:51:50","slug":"bacterial-ink-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/bacterial-ink-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacterial Ink Tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #5f80a0;\">Bacterial Ink Tattoo to Help Monitor Health.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Engineers from MIT have created a <strong>3D printed tattoo<\/strong> made from genetically programmed<strong> living cells<\/strong> that activate when exposed to different types of stimuli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>bacterial ink tattoo<\/strong> would be used to help <strong>detect certain illnesses or sensitivities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tattoos are made with a gelatinous material called<strong> hydrogel<\/strong> in combination with <strong>3D printed cells<\/strong>. Because the makeup of hydrogels is like <strong>bacteri<\/strong>a it makes them ideal for printing. Each line is then made with a different type of bacteria, resembling a tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To signal a reaction, certain lines from the tattoo would light up when it is exposed to<strong> different chemicals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Graduate student and co-author Hyunwoo Yek comments, \u201cThis is very future work, but we expect to be able to print living computational platforms that could be wearable\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:1200px;max-height:600px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OeqM1L3nbOw?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;margin-bottom:20px;\"><\/div><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">References<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">MIT News. (http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2017\/engineers-3-d-print-living-tattoo-1205). December 5, 2017. Jennifer Chu. Engineers 3-D print a \u201cliving tattoo\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\">Science Alert. (<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/3d-printed-living-tattoo-live-bacteria-stimuli-responsive-material\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/3d-printed-living-tattoo-live-bacteria-stimuli-responsive-material<\/a>). December 8, 2017. Michelle Starr. MIT Researchers Have Designed a \u00ab\u00a0Living Tattoo\u00a0\u00bb Using Genetically Programmed Bacteria.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}