In Dezeen:
In this movie designer and materials researcher Shamees Aden explains how "scientists are now mixing together groups of chemicals [to make] them behave like living cells. They are able to reconfigure, they are able to adapt to light, pressure and heat."...The synthetic production of living materials is so far limited to basic applications - modifying the behaviour of oil droplets in a water solution, for example - but Aden has developed a proposal that uses protocells to make self-regenerating soles for a pair of running shoes.
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