tissue-engineering

A collaboration between VML, The Organoid Company, and Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. has produced the first handbag from material engineered using reconstructed Tyrannosaurus rex collagen sequences, but paleontologists challenge the project's scientific framing.

UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital scientists built a functional oesophagus from a donor scaffold and the recipient's own cells, restoring normal eating in eight pigs within six months.