Posted on 04/27/2025 7:03:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A team of scientists will 'combine creative innovation, genomic engineering and advanced tissue engineering to start producing sustainable luxury materials from prehistoric species'.
It builds on previous research which involved extracting a fragment of collagen from a T.Rex fossil, found in 1988 in Montana.
It was one of the most complete specimens at the time of its discovery, and even contained preserved blood proteins.
Now, experts will use this fragment to artificially recreate what a full-length T.Rex collagen sequence would have looked like.
Once they have made sure it looks genetically similar to that of the T.Rex ancestors, they will incorporate it into their own lab-grown leather cells and 'grow' it.
This will produce a dense network of collagen – similar to the middle layer of skin – which will then become the T.Rex leather.
The collaboration is between The Organoid Company, Lab-Grown Leather Ltd and creative agency VML, and the leather will be developed at a lab in Newcastle.
Thomas Mitchell, CEO of The Organoid Company, said: 'This project is a remarkable example of how we can harness cutting-edge genome and protein engineering to create entirely new materials.
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My nylon windbreaker is already made from dinosaurs, just not sure which variety.
Excellent
A T.REX jockstrap would be neat.
Codzilla
I see a bad SciFi made for TV / Cable movie
Collagen and blood proteins from a fifty million year old fossil.
Right.
Still, a T-Rex leather jacket would be way cool.
Actually just a tease. If they can do the skin, a real and complete T-Rex is just around the corner.
I met you in a cave, you were painting buffalo
I said I'd be your slave, follow wherever you go
That night we split a rattlesnake and danced beneath the stars
You fell asleep, I stayed awake and watched the passing cars
wearing my suit made from a dinosaur
Nice!
Who needs TV when you have T Rex?
(The better the pun, the bigger the groan...)
After 40 million years?
My niece walked like a Velociraptor for several years.
They were so busy doing it no one stopped and asked if they should.
Who the heck is gonna want a jacket with little bitty short sleeves?
Finally! The question that really matters. I was giving up hope.
Peach
I had a coffee cup with that Larson cartoon on it with the caption: “Real reason dinosaurs went extinct.”
It’s fascinating that complex molecules in dinosaur and other fossil remains have been able to survive near their theoretical limit over thousands of years. The contra-scientific belief that such proteins have survived for millions of years without serious cryogenic freezing for the duration is basically a belief in magic.
Thanks BenLurkin.
Not bloody likely; I won’t wear such a thing.
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