By Jasmin Malik Chua, Source: Ecouterre

Leather aficionados may soon be left to wonder “where’s the beef?” Modern Meadow, a startup specializing in novel biomaterials, has just secured $10 million in funding to culture leather from petri dishes, not from livestock. A pioneer in the field of lab-synthesized meat, the Brooklyn-based company uses a tissue-engineering technique known as “biofabrication” to grow leather from skin cells, which it obtains through small biopsies that don’t hurt or kill animals, according to CEO Andras Forgacs.

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