Project Says It's Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?
Traditional animal skin leathers? Those are dinosaurs. Enter "leather" made from the lab-grown skin of a T-Rex, which a group of companies and bioresearchers say they'll use to fashion luxury, "cruelty-free" purses. The project — led by genomic engineering outfit The Organoid Company, biotechnology group Lab-Grown Leather, and creative agency VML — will purportedly use the fossilized collagen of a Tyrannosaurus rex as a "blueprint" to engineer cells with synthetic DNA, according to a release. "We're unlocking the potential to engineer leather from prehistoric species, starting with the formidable T-Rex," Che Connon of Lab-Grown Leather, a professor of tissue engineering […]
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