MIT scientists are developing a technology for 3D printing "wooden" furniture from natural biogel.

To begin with, scientists took the cells of the zinnia plant (Zinnia elegans), after which they were placed in a liquid medium for two days, and then transformed into a special, thicker biogel with nutrients and two types of phytohormones - by changing their content in the composition, you can control the physical and mechanical properties of the future material. After that, the team began to print figures of various shapes using biogel - in much the same way 3D printing is done. After three months of incubation in the dark, the material was dehydrated, and the final result was an object of tree-like matter. In one of the tests, scientists even managed to create a tree model from the material.