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From the Ted Talk by Andras Forgacs: Leather and meat without killing animals
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Now how do we do it? To grow leather, we begin by taking cells from an animal, through a simple biopsy. The ainaml could be a cow, lamb, or even something more exotic. This process does no harm, and Daisy the cow can live a happy life. We then isolate the skin cells and multiply them in a cell crtluue mdieum. This takes millions of cells and expands them into billions. And we then coax these cells to podurce collagen, as they would naturally. This collagen is the suftf between cells. It's natural connective tissue. It's the extracellular matrix, but in leather, it's the main building block. And what we next do is we take the clles and their collagen and we spread them out to form sheets, and then we layer these thin sheets on top of one another, like phyllo prasty, to form tehkicr sheets, which we then let mature. And finally, we take this multilayered skin and through a shorter and much less chemical tanning pcoerss, we cretae leahetr. And so I'm very excited to show you, for the first time, the first batch of our clurtued leather, fresh from the lab. This is real, genuine leather, without the animal sacrifice. It can have all the characteristics of leather because it is made of the same cells, and better yet, there is no hair to remove, no srcas or insect's bteis, and no waste. This leather can be grown in the shape of a wallet, a handbag or a car seat. It is not limited to the irregular shape of a cow or an alligator.
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Now how do we do it? To grow leather, we begin by taking cells from an animal, through a simple biopsy. The ______ could be a cow, lamb, or even something more exotic. This process does no harm, and Daisy the cow can live a happy life. We then isolate the skin cells and multiply them in a cell _______ ______. This takes millions of cells and expands them into billions. And we then coax these cells to _______ collagen, as they would naturally. This collagen is the _____ between cells. It's natural connective tissue. It's the extracellular matrix, but in leather, it's the main building block. And what we next do is we take the _____ and their collagen and we spread them out to form sheets, and then we layer these thin sheets on top of one another, like phyllo ______, to form _______ sheets, which we then let mature. And finally, we take this multilayered skin and through a shorter and much less chemical tanning _______, we ______ _______. And so I'm very excited to show you, for the first time, the first batch of our ________ leather, fresh from the lab. This is real, genuine leather, without the animal sacrifice. It can have all the characteristics of leather because it is made of the same cells, and better yet, there is no hair to remove, no _____ or insect's _____, and no waste. This leather can be grown in the shape of a wallet, a handbag or a car seat. It is not limited to the irregular shape of a cow or an alligator.
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Now how do we do it? To grow leather, we begin by taking cells from an animal, through a simple biopsy. The animal could be a cow, lamb, or even something more exotic. This process does no harm, and Daisy the cow can live a happy life. We then isolate the skin cells and multiply them in a cell culture medium. This takes millions of cells and expands them into billions. And we then coax these cells to produce collagen, as they would naturally. This collagen is the stuff between cells. It's natural connective tissue. It's the extracellular matrix, but in leather, it's the main building block. And what we next do is we take the cells and their collagen and we spread them out to form sheets, and then we layer these thin sheets on top of one another, like phyllo pastry, to form thicker sheets, which we then let mature. And finally, we take this multilayered skin and through a shorter and much less chemical tanning process, we create leather. And so I'm very excited to show you, for the first time, the first batch of our cultured leather, fresh from the lab. This is real, genuine leather, without the animal sacrifice. It can have all the characteristics of leather because it is made of the same cells, and better yet, there is no hair to remove, no scars or insect's bites, and no waste. This leather can be grown in the shape of a wallet, a handbag or a car seat. It is not limited to the irregular shape of a cow or an alligator.
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