ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2023
3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes.
Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Spatial structure: shaping the ecology and evolution of microbial communities.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Transforming dairy waste into hydrogen fuel using alginate-encapsulated bacterial co-cultures.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Personalized Delivery of Probiotics and Prebiotics via 3D Food Printing.Metabolites · 2025Review
- High-Resolution Patterned Delivery of Chemical Signals From 3D-Printed Picoliter Droplet Networks.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Hypersaline organic wastewater treatment: Biotechnological advances and engineering challenges.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2025Review
- Ecological design of high-performance synthetic microbial communities: from theoretical foundations to functional optimization.ISME communications · 2025Review
- Modulating Microbial Materials - Engineering Bacterial Cellulose with Synthetic Biology.ACS synthetic biology · 2024Review
- 3D bioprinting of microorganisms: principles and applications.Bioprocess and biosystems engineering · 2024Review
- Emerging Multiscale Biofabrication Approaches for Bacteriotherapy.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Single-cell patterning and characterisation of antibiotic persistent bacteria using bio-sCAPA.Lab on a chip · 2023Article
- 3D printing of microbial communities: A new platform for understanding and engineering microbiomes.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
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Abstract
3D printing has emerged as a powerful way to produce complex materials on-demand. These printing technologies are now being applied in microbiology, with many recent examples where microbes and matrices are co-printed to create bespoke living materials. Here, we propose a new paradigm for microbial printing. In addition to its importance for materials, we argue that printing can be used to understand and engineer microbiome communities, analogous to its use in human tissue engineering. Many microbes naturally live in diverse, spatially structured communities that are challenging to study and manipulate. 3D printing offers an exciting new solution to these challenges, as it can precisely arrange microbes in 3D space, allowing one to build custom microbial communities for a wide range of purposes in research, medicine, and industry.
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