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Bioprinting Bacteria in Hydrogel Matrices for the Study of Motility and Growth

Bioprinting Bacteria in Hydrogel Matrices for the Study of Motility and Growth

January 19, 2024

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Bioprinting Bacterial Colonies for Motility and Growth Analysis in a Porous Hydrogel Matrix

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1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,University of Colorado Boulder, 2Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,Princeton University

Summary

This protocol describes a procedure for three-dimensional (3D) printing of bacterial colonies to study their motility and growth in complex 3D porous hydrogel matrices that are more akin to their natural habitats than conventional liquid cultures or Petri dishes.

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