Lab-Grown Leather Could Be a Reality In 5 Years

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @04:41AM from the looking-forward-to-leather-sheets dept.

fangmcgee writes "Lab-grown leather apparel could hit the runways in as little as five years—all without harming a hair on a single animal's head, according to Andras Forgacs, co-founder and CEO of Modern Meadow, a Missouri-based startup that's approaching meat-and-leather production from a tissue-bioengineering, rather than farming, point of view. Backed by Breakout Labs, the grant-awarding foundation headed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Modern Meadow seeks to combine regenerative medicine with three-dimensional printing to synthesize leather and ultimately meat."

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Even better by phantomfive · 2012-09-25 04:49 · Score: 3, Interesting

Leather is fine, but this could lead to new synthetic materials that improve on leather.

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Re:Now dawns the age by jythie · 2012-09-25 05:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

Actually there are already a number of suppliers for vegan kinksters.

For many it will not matter since it is all about imagery, thus the fact the leather comes from particular animals is 'important'. Others will probably be happy to have more options in alternatives.