>>17443693 (PB) re: self assembling wires

Looking thru usaspending.gov using "self assembling" as key words. Hmmmm. $95 Million - may not all be nefarious but a starting place at least.

First Grant (NIAID) to Univ. of Wisconsin for $7 million (in resonse to CV - gasp!):

Novel antigens will be presented by virus-like particles based on a self-assembling bacteriophage coat protein (a highly immunogenic platform)."

Second grant to Reagents of the University of California, San Francisco which was let by the National Science Foundation in 2016. Key words are buried. However, the grant did lead to The Center for Cellular Construction, self described as "An NSF Science + Technology Center".

The Center for Cellular Construction Home Page:

Cellular Engineering

The vision of our center is to develop an engineering discipline that will allow us to design and build cells and tissue with specific three-dimensional structures. These structures will serve as living factories and building blocks for better and more sustainable products, materials, and devices to benefit humankind. Our mission is to launch a new approach to understanding and designing cells. In pursuit of this mission, we will revolutionize industry through novel cell-based approaches to produce chemicals and materials for medical, civil, and consumer applications; we will educate and train a diverse research and manufacturing workforce, and we will engage and inspire the public to embrace the promise of engineering cells to produce the materials and factories of tomorrow.

Under the banner 'Cellular Legos':

"We therefore aim to reveal core principles of tissue self-organization in existing living systems—including their mechanics, information processing, information flow—and to place them under engineering control to build consortia of interacting cells. These consortia will ultimately be applied to produce a new generation of living devices and materials with applications in chemical production, materials science, and nanotechnology."

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_1548297_4900

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_P01AI165077_7529

https://centerforcellularconstruction.org/