Modern Meadow plans on producing lab-grown leather

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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157if_/http://badge.stumbleupon.com/badge/embed/5/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gizmag.com%2Fmodern-meadow-in-vitro-leather%2F24441%2F" width="50" height="60" id="iframe-stmblpn-widget-1"></iframe></div> <div class="as_button"><div class="pin-it-button" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157oe_/http://www.gizmag.com/modern-meadow-in-vitro-leather/24441/" data-image="http://images.gizmag.com/hero/lableather.jpg" data-description="Modern Meadow is developing a technology to produce in-vitro leather in the next five years."></div></div> <div class="as_button"><script type="IN/Share" data-counter="top"></script></div> <div class="as_button" id="reddit_button_rail"><script type="text/javascript">reddit_newwindow='1'</script></div> </div> <div id="hero_box" style="width: 530px;"> <a id="hero_link" href="/web/20121025131157/http://www.gizmag.com/modern-meadow-in-vitro-leather/24441/pictures"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/lableather.jpg" title="'Real' leather, like that pictured above, could soon face competition from a lab-grown sub..." width="530" height="298" alt="'Real' leather, like that pictured above, could soon face competition from a lab-grown sub..."/></a> <div class="pic_caption"> <p>'Real' leather, like that pictured above, could soon face competition from a lab-grown substitute (Photo: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157/http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=leather&search_group=#id=85489510&src=a78ae877a2babc706be56fd79449af90-2-84" target="_blank">Shutterstock</a>) </p> </div> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> <div class="article_body"> <div id="top_unit"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <p>For many people, meat and leather are an ethical and environmental nightmare, causing misery to billions of animals and wreaking havoc on the planet’s ecosystems. While mankind is unlikely to turn entirely vegan in the next generation, a more humane and cleaner type of leather could become available in the near future (and meat a few years later) thanks to the development of an in-vitro version of the material being developed by Modern Meadow.</p> <p>The company’s founder and CEO Andras Forgacs recently revealed to Txchnologist, a GE-sponsored technology online magazine, that Modern Meadow has focused on leather because it is a simpler structure than meat, although he’s also working on the latter (and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157/ttp://www.gizmag.com/scientists-grow-meat-in-a-lab/13478" target="_blank">he’s not alone there</a>). Modern Meadow’s research is being supported with funding from PayPal’s co-founder Peter Thiel via Breakout Labs, which supports early-stage new technologies.</p> <p>In reality, the process would not be completely animal-free, since it would start with a puncture biopsy of an animal. The extracted cells would be isolated and possibly genetically modified (not for meat, though). They would then be reproduced by the billions in a bioreactor and centrifuged to eliminate the agent that supports cell growth. Next, they would be lumped together to create aggregated spheres of cells, which would be then layered and fused together in a process called bioassembly.</p> <p>The layered and fused cells would subsequently be placed in a bioreactor to mature, where they would be fed for a few weeks. The skin tissue would evolve into hide, and muscle and fat would be harvested for food. Here comes the good news for environmentalists: because the hide would not have hair or a tough outer skin, the tanning process would be shorter and require fewer chemicals.</p> <p>Andras said Modern Meadow’s lab leather is still in the development phase and his team will be spending the next two years perfecting processes and materials. While in-vitro meat could take as long as a decade to become a commercial reality, fully-fledged lab-grown leather production could be ready for its close-up in as little as five years.</p> <p>He noted that the challenges are related to engineering, as the technology itself is mature. He has the experience to back up his claim. Organovo pioneered the 3D bioprinting of organs for a range of purposes, from drug testing to transplantation.</p> <p>Back in August when the funding was announced, Breakout Lab’s executive director Lindy Fishburne said that they’d chosen Modern Meadow as grant recipients because the company combines “regenerative medicine with 3D printing to imagine an economic and compassionate solution to a global problem.”</p> <p>And it’s a massive problem.</p> <p>Livestock accounts for nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, besides polluting waterways, causing soil erosion and being the main driver of deforestation of the Amazon forest, not to mention the immense suffering it causes to animals. Leather is also the source of massive pollution by chemicals, especially in India, and the production cycle involves a great deal of waste.</p> <p>Global demand for meat is expected to double by 2050 and considering that currently we farm, feed, transport and slaughter around 70 billion land animals per year, the topic has gained momentum amongst the international environmental community. True, in-vitro meat and leather have an ecological footprint as well, but it’s insignificant compared with the devastation caused by livestock. And there's no slaughtering involved.</p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157/https://www.breakoutlabs.org/news-events.html" target="_blank">Breakout Labs</a></p>   <div id="bottom_unit"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157js_/http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> </div> </div>   <span class="title share_bar">Share</span> <div id="article_share_bar" class="dotsontop share_bar"> <div class="as_button fb_as_button"><div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.gizmag.com/modern-meadow-in-vitro-leather/24441/" data-send="false" data-layout="box_count" data-show-faces="false"></div><script type="text/javascript">_ga.trackFacebook();</script></div> <div class="as_button"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157/http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-count="vertical" data-via="gizmag">Tweet</a></div> <div class="as_button"><div class="g-plusone" data-size="tall" data-href="http://www.gizmag.com/modern-meadow-in-vitro-leather/24441/"></div></div> <div class="as_button"><iframe style="overflow: hidden; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157if_/http://badge.stumbleupon.com/badge/embed/5/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gizmag.com%2Fmodern-meadow-in-vitro-leather%2F24441%2F" width="50" height="60" id="iframe-stmblpn-widget-2"></iframe></div> <div class="as_button"><div class="pin-it-button" data-url="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157oe_/http://www.gizmag.com/modern-meadow-in-vitro-leather/24441/" data-image="http://images.gizmag.com/hero/lableather.jpg" data-description="Modern Meadow is developing a technology to produce in-vitro leather in the next five years."></div></div> <div class="as_button"><script type="IN/Share" data-counter="top"></script></div> <div class="as_button" id="reddit_button_bar"><script type="text/javascript">reddit_newwindow='1'</script></div> </div>  <span class="title clear_left">About the Author</span> <div class="dotsontop" id="authorcontainer">  <a href="/web/20121025131157/http://www.gizmag.com/author/antonio-pasolini/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20121025131157im_/http://images.gizmag.com/author_profiles/166.jpg" alt="Antonio Pasolini" id="bio_pic"/> </a>   Brazilian-Italian Antonio Pasolini graduated in journalism in Brazil before heading out to London for an MA in film and television studies. He fell in love with the city and spent 13 years there as a film reviewer before settling back in Brazil. Antonio's passion for green issues - and the outdoors - eventually got the best of him and since 2007 he's been writing about alternative energy, sustainability and new technology.   <a href="/web/20121025131157/http://www.gizmag.com/author/antonio-pasolini/">All articles by Antonio Pasolini</a> <br class="clear_both"> </div>  <div id="tags"> <span class="title">Tags</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <ul> <li>» <a href="/web/20121025131157/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/animals/" rel="tag">Animals</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20121025131157/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/clothing/" rel="tag">Clothing</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20121025131157/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/textile/" rel="tag">Textile</a></li> </ul> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> </div> <div id="bing_unit"></div>  <span class="title" id="comments">11 Comments</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <div id="comment-166741" class="a_comment"> <p>If this can help poaching of rare animals I hope they can find angel investors with money who care about saving wildlife-great idea. Can they make horn materials like Rhino and Elephant? </p> <span class="name">ZekeG</span><br> <span class="date"> 6th October, 2012 @ 08:07 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-166867" class="a_comment"> <p>Fantastic idea, so the whole world eventually stops killing animals but their feeding demands will still need to be met and while they continue to breed out of control they would soon be consuming everything that can be grown. Of course we could introduce regular culling to keep the numbers down but wouldn't that defeat the object ? </p> <span class="name">professore</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 02:39 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-166915" class="a_comment"> <p>HA, this immediately made me think of the artificial vat-grown meat, Bison-Boar from John Scalzi's book the Android's Dream. </p> <p></p> <p>"...And when they did eat meat, they picked out a tube of vatted meat product, made from cultivated tissue that never required the butchering of an animal, or even the participation of any sort of animal outside of the purely mythical. The best selling vetted meat product on the market was something called Kingston's Bison Boar™, some godforsaken agglomeration of bovine and pig genes stretched across a cartilaginous scaffolding and immersed in a nutrient broth until it grew into something that was meatlike without being meaty, paler than veal, lean as a lizard and so animal friendly that even strict vegetarians didn't mind tucking in a Bison Boar Burger™ or two when the mood struck them. Kingston's corporate mascot was a pig with a bison shag and horns, frying up burgers on a hibachi, winking at the customer in third-quarter profile, licking its lips in anticipation of devouring its own fictional flesh. The thing was damned creepy." </p> <p>(John Scalzi - "The Android's Dream" </p> <span class="name">Craig Corbell</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 08:21 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-166972" class="a_comment"> <p>Craig, that's just bad MARKETING on Bison Boar Burger's part. Anyway, you DON'T have to EAT it, there are other uses as well & if Bison Boar is creepy, what do you think about eating something that was REALLY once alive? </p> <span class="name">Ra'anan</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 11:12 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-166996" class="a_comment"> <p>So if we eliminate the need for the millions of animals used for meat and leather now; what becomes of them? </p> <span class="name">Robert Flieger</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 11:58 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-167029" class="a_comment"> <p>Why, Robert, they'll be slaughtered of course. The corpses dumped in a landfill to rot. </p> <p></p> <p>Humans are omnivores. Livestock aren't pets. </p> <p></p> <p>To anyone who is both religious and vegetarian, I say Genesis 1:21. </p> <span class="name">Gregg Eshelman</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 01:49 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-167041" class="a_comment"> <p>The animals eat all of our fruits and veggies, and we all end up dying of malnutrition anyway... </p> <span class="name">Zynn</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 02:09 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-167062" class="a_comment"> <p>until vat meat is a reality, leather is mostly just a byproduct of the meat industry. Cow goes in, hamgurgers, steaks and nice shoes come out. </p> <span class="name">Bryan Paschke</span><br> <span class="date"> 8th October, 2012 @ 03:37 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-167461" class="a_comment"> <p>re; Gregg Eshelman </p> <p></p> <p>Genesis 9:3 </p> <p>Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. </p> <p></p> <p>The bible does not encourage vegetarianism nor does it require the consumption of meat. </p> <span class="name">Pikeman </span><br> <span class="date"> 9th October, 2012 @ 07:30 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-167614" class="a_comment"> <p>I fail to see what a book of middle-eastern fairy tales has to do with biotechnology. </p> <span class="name">nutcase</span><br> <span class="date"> 10th October, 2012 @ 06:28 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-168100" class="a_comment"> <p>This was foreseen, and popularized in a niche market, by SF writers many years ago.. 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