More skin in the game: Leather grown using biotechnology is about to hit the catwalk
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Genetic engineering can now be used to grow leather without any need to raise and kill animals
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LEATHERMAKING is an ancient craft. The oldest leather artefact found so far is a 5,500-year-old shoe from a cave in Armenia, but paintings in Egyptian tombs show that, 7,000 years ago, leather was being turned into all manner of things, from sandals to buckets to military equipment. It is a fair bet that the use of animal skins for shelter and clothing goes back hundreds of thousands of years at least.
Leathermaking is also, though, a nasty business. In 18th-century London the ...
Source: Biotechnology - Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news