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Architecture inspired by biology is not a new concept. But typically, “architecture has imitated the imagery of biology and nature without awareness of the underlying mechanisms,” argue Washington University's Ram Dixit and Sung Ho Kim in “Cellular Transformations: Between Architecture and Biology.”

Ryan Calcutt and Ram Dixit at Washington University in St. Louis and their collaborators created the first artificial scaffolds that can support the growth of individual plants cells -- a discovery that will make it possible to study how forces like gravity affect the way that plant cells form and grow.