Bacterial Cellulose Engineering

Michael Florea's two papers on engineered cellulose production from bacteria are out in the prestigious journal PNAS and in Scientific Reports.

This Synthetic Biology & Materials project started from 10 iGEM undergrads in 2014 and is now two research papers, a start-up and more. A selection of the news articles about our June PNAS paper are below.

• Engineering 'tea bacteria' could lead to advanced materials: Imperial College London

• Tea is even more amazing than we previously thought, with 'wonder materials': Metro UK

• Good old cup of tea could help colonise Mars: The Daily Telegraph

• This Tea Could Help Humans Conquer Mars: Munchies Food by VICE

• Hi-tech tea: The Hippocratic Post