MIT Engineers Design ‘Living Materials’

Here's one that everyone should be interested in. The good folks at MIT have devised a way to bridge technology and biology using bacteria.

“Our idea is to put the living and the nonliving worlds together to make hybrid materials that have living cells in them and are functional,” says Timothy Lu, who is an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering.

The authors of the paper see this technology as being useful in solar cells, self-healing materials, or diagnostic sensors. They don't mention it, but I see possibilities in the field of prosthetics.

Here's a link to the article.