Scientists plan to turn dinosaur DNA into designer bags

World, May 08, 2025 (ATB Digital) .- In a UK laboratory, the border between the possible and the unimaginable has just taken a step further. A team made up of the creative agency VML, the biotechnological company Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. and the company specializing in genetics The Organoid Company has presented a technology project that seems drawn from a futuristic novel: manufacturing bags, wallets and luxury accessories using dinosaur fur, spe…

Three companies want to revolutionize the fashion industry: their plan: a material made with the DNA of the T-Rex.

T-Rex Leather: Lab-Grown, Sustainable Future of Luxury Fashion

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Scientists plan to turn dinosaur DNA into designer bags

London: The fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, once the king of dinosaurs, could soon inspire a bold new trend in luxury fashion. A group of researchers and bioengineers in the UK are working on using lab-grown leather — designed using fossilised T-Rex remains — to create designer bags, including clutches, purses and totes. T-Rex lived around 68 million years ago in parts of North America and Asia. Now, scientists hope to engineer leather using T-Rex c…

Gustavo AlonsoAn initiative led by the creative agency VML, the bioengineering company The Organoid Company and the firm Lab-Grown Leather Ltd seeks to manufacture leather grown in laboratory from collagen from Tyrannosaurus rex, with the aim of applying it to luxury products such as wallets, bags and fashion items. According to the VML press release, this would be the first leather development based on a prehistoric species. The material seeks …

Luxury leather goods from ancient times? That sounds crazy at first. Handbags, watch bracelets, maybe shoes? From mammoth or even the dreaded Predator T-Rex? Three companies want to make this possible together. The article Gentechnik should make it possible: Handbag made of T-Rex leather first appeared on ingenieur.de - Jobbörse und Nachrichtenportal für Ingenieure.