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UK Designer Grows Clothes From Bacteria
An anonymous reader writes "Experimental UK designer Suzanne Lee 'grows' clothes from bacteria. She has developed a method for growing clothing from yeast, a pinch of bacteria, and several cups of sweetened green tea. From this microbial soup, fibers begin to sprout and propagate, eventually resulting in thin, wet sheets of bacterial cellulose that can be molded to a dress form. As the sheets dry out, overlapping edges 'felt' together to become fused seams. When all moisture has evaporated, the fibers develop a tight-knit, papyrus-like surface."
Obviously, fungi-bacteria cellulose clothes is an acquired taste. It grows on you.
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If we get to the point where we don't even have paper, I'd say clothing will be the least of our problems.
Personally, all I'll need in the apocalypse are shoulderpads, a mohawk, and a dune-buggy. Shirt and pants are purely optional.
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Support bacteria! It's the only culture some people have!
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Except that it's not paper, which is usually made from ground-up trees. You guys should think further than clothing. There has been a lot of talk and hype about using bacteria to synthesize useful materials. More than anything else, this little stunt demonstrates that it's slowly getting feasible.
The material in question might find some more useful application than clothing. If not, some other "biotech" material eventually will.
Burning hot seat combined with no pants sounds like a BAD plan. (Unless you are in that sort of thing)