Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital manufacturing technologies can interact with the biological world. Her laboratory works at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials technology and synthetic biology, pioneering a new era of symbiosis between microorganisms, our bodies, our products and even our buildings.

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