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Dinosaur collagen used to create one-of-a-kind handbag
Creators say the bag showcases lab-grown leather technology and will open bidding above $500,000, according to the auction house.
- On Thursday, April 2, designers unveiled a handbag made from engineered collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils at the Art Zoo Museum in Amsterdam.
- The Organoid Company, VML, and Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. developed the material by inserting ancient protein fragments into an unidentified animal's cell to produce collagen leather.
- Paleontologist Melanie During of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Dr. Thomas R. Holtz Jr. of the University of Maryland expressed skepticism, stating ancient collagen cannot recreate dinosaur skin or leather fiber organization.
- The handbag will be auctioned in May with a starting price of more than $500,000, or S$640,000; Professor Che Connon of Lab-Grown Leather said the origin gave it extra "oomph."
- Mitchell said the team welcomes scientific debate as the "bedrock of scientific exploration," maintaining this project represents the closest anyone has come to creating "T. rex leather.
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A handbag in Amsterdam is turning heads for what it claims to be made of: lab-grown "T. rex leather." Scientists and designers say they used tiny protein fragments reportedly extracted from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils in the US, inserted them into animal cells to grow collagen, and then processed that into...
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