Re: [DIYbio] Re: Artificial Jellyfish

IMHO, Sugar would make a poor substrate for cell culture. The osmotic
pressure of growing on sugar would be huge; that's one reason why it's
traditional to add so much sugar to preserves like jam.

On 30/07/12 14:07, Jordan Miller wrote:
> here's our sugar extruder:
> http://blog.reprap.org/2012/07/on-challenge-of-3d-printing-sugar-for.html
>
> cheers,
> jordan
>
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:08 AM, "Jeremy[biohak.net]" <jeremya11z@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> No I do not. I wish I did. I don't really have access to the type of
> equipment necessary to accomplish that. I am interested though in maybe
> converting a rep rap to do sugar extrusions. Are the home cnc techniques
> that could work for something like this?
>
> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:50:59 AM UTC-5, Petfixer71 wrote:
>>
>> Do you have Any experience with cell culture on extracellular matrix??
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, July 23, 2012 3:07:40 AM UTC-4, Jeremy[biohak.net] wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's <http://www.biohak.net/node/12>here's an article I posted up on
>>> my blog. Apparently researchers were able to produce this jellyfish by
>>> grown muscle cells along the outer surface of a polymer mold.
>>>
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