{"id":2490,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/t-rex-leather-handbags-could-soon-be-available-in-shops\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:00:38","slug":"t-rex-leather-handbags-could-soon-be-available-in-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/t-rex-leather-handbags-could-soon-be-available-in-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Rex leather handbags could soon be available in shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-28 12:00:37<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>T-Rex leather handbags could soon be available to buy.<BR><br \/>\nLab-Grown Leather, a company based in Newcastle, has joined forces with The Organoid Company to grow hides using DNA from the extinct dinosaur species.<BR><br \/>\nA full-length collagen will be generated from the dinosaur that will be used to grow new skin.<BR><br \/>\nIt was previously thought that dinosaur DNA would be impossible to find as the fragile strands were unlikely to have survived for millions of years but Lab-Grown Leather are now hoping to have their accessories on the shelves by the end of the year.<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Che Connon, from the startup, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re unlocking the potential to engineer leather from prehistoric species, starting with the formidable T-Rex.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;This venture showcases the power of cell-based technology to create materials that are both innovative and ethically sound.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-28 12:00:37 T-Rex leather handbags could soon be available to buy. Lab-Grown Leather, a company based in Newcastle, has joined forces with The Organoid Company to grow hides using DNA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}