full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Suzanne Lee: Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So now I can't help but see all materials through the lens of biofabrication. In fact, there's a growing global citmnoumy of innovators rethinking materials with biology. Multiple cenpaioms are now growing moursohm materials, but not literally mushrooms — using mycelium, which is the root setysm of fungi, to bind together agricultural byproducts. It's a process that's been described as "nature's glue." A comomn way to do this is to take a 3-D mold, fill it with a wtsae crop like corn stalks or hemp, add water, wait a few days for the mycelium to grow throughout, remove the mold, and you're left with a grwon 3-D form.

Open Cloze

So now I can't help but see all materials through the lens of biofabrication. In fact, there's a growing global _________ of innovators rethinking materials with biology. Multiple _________ are now growing ________ materials, but not literally mushrooms — using mycelium, which is the root ______ of fungi, to bind together agricultural byproducts. It's a process that's been described as "nature's glue." A ______ way to do this is to take a 3-D mold, fill it with a _____ crop like corn stalks or hemp, add water, wait a few days for the mycelium to grow throughout, remove the mold, and you're left with a _____ 3-D form.

Solution

  1. grown
  2. system
  3. common
  4. community
  5. companies
  6. mushroom
  7. waste

Original Text

So now I can't help but see all materials through the lens of biofabrication. In fact, there's a growing global community of innovators rethinking materials with biology. Multiple companies are now growing mushroom materials, but not literally mushrooms — using mycelium, which is the root system of fungi, to bind together agricultural byproducts. It's a process that's been described as "nature's glue." A common way to do this is to take a 3-D mold, fill it with a waste crop like corn stalks or hemp, add water, wait a few days for the mycelium to grow throughout, remove the mold, and you're left with a grown 3-D form.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
grow materials 2
living organisms 2
replace plastics 2
naturally composted 2
growing materials 2
material world 2

Important Words

  1. add
  2. agricultural
  3. bind
  4. biofabrication
  5. biology
  6. byproducts
  7. common
  8. community
  9. companies
  10. corn
  11. crop
  12. days
  13. fact
  14. fill
  15. form
  16. fungi
  17. global
  18. glue
  19. grow
  20. growing
  21. grown
  22. hemp
  23. innovators
  24. left
  25. lens
  26. literally
  27. materials
  28. mold
  29. multiple
  30. mushroom
  31. mushrooms
  32. mycelium
  33. process
  34. remove
  35. rethinking
  36. root
  37. stalks
  38. system
  39. wait
  40. waste
  41. water