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Scientists grow living, rainbow-hued textiles using color-making bacteria

Researchers have developed a sustainable method for creating and dyeing fabric using living bacteria. In this method, the ...

Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles

In the future, clothes might come from vats of living microbes. Reporting in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers demonstrate that bacteria can both create fabric and dye it in every color ...