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. 2020 Feb 4;11:563. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14371-4

Fig. 4. Spatial organization of microbial consortia improves on-demand production over a mixed gel.

Fig. 4

Betaxanthins production was compared between separate (printing E. coli and yeast gel separately) and mixed (mixing two species in the same gel) hydrogels. Both separate and mixed gels encapsulated the same initial number of consortia cells. Data are mean ± s.d.; n = 9 biological replicates. **p-value (0.0054) for the means of two groups was calculated using unpaired t test with Welch’s correction. p-value (0.024) for the standard deviations of two groups was calculated using the Levene’s test. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.