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Resistant, sustainable and promising. This is T. Rex’s skin that… it is very unlikely to exist.
A surprising innovation of the marketing company that promoted the “mammoth meatball” would be expected. But no one expected a T. Rex skin suitcase.
Of course, this animal does not indeed exist today, this skin was raised in the laboratory. Only scientists claim that the material was created through Dinosaur DNA.
The new skin has hit the market through the collaboration between, a genomic engineering company based in the Netherlands, the UK -based, a company that specializes in “without scaffolding” biomaterials, and an American marketing agency.
Objective, the team of scientists explains, is to make the skin industry more sustainable, avoiding the death of animals. Now, Vlm writes in one that this new leather contains a “natural durability, the possibility of repair and tactility expected in high quality leather items ”.
“To the rebuild and optimize sequences of ancient proteinswe can conceive the leather de T. rexa biomaterial inspired by prehistoric biology, and cloning it on a cell line conceived, ”says Thomas Mitchell, CEO of The Organoid Company.“ We are in love with widening the boundaries of synthetic biology… to create sustainable alternatives to tomorrow’s materials. ”
It has everything to be promising – and expensive. But is it real? How is T. Rex’s skin? And how if?
According to even in the case of the best preserved species DNA does not survive much more than a million years before becoming too fragmented and degraded to be sequenced. T. Rex has been extinct for… 66 million years. Few hopes for this distant animal to be recovered.
A guarantee to have sequenced seven short fragments of Type 1 collagen peptides of a fossil of T. rex. But the idea did not convince the scientific community, which denied it well.
It may be possible that type 1 collagen, present in all vertebrates, survives in the dinosaur – some believe that this protein remains for 200 million years – but it is extremely difficult.
Even if collagen do T. rex Identified in 2007 was genuine, was too fragmented for complete recreation, argues Science Alert.
At best, this skin cultivated in the laboratory will contain some small collagen filament fragments that can have a passing resemblance com a do T. rex.
