Real fur from the lab – without animals

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the fur became longer frowned and Many brands including sizes like Canada Goose, sweet & gabbanaHugo BossTommy Hilfiger and Chanel banned fur from its range. Yet Europe is considered the largest in the world exporter fur – most views It comes from Denmark and Finland.

Moreover fendiearlier for fur products known, is now moving towards a furless future. Incoming custom design show should do without. As reported by “National Geographic”, the luxury brand has therefore decided to fund a project at Imperial College London to explore how real fur can be produced in the lab.

yeast as base

Together, the research team of bioengineer Tom Ellis wants to produce real fur from the lab. How does it work? Genes from animals such as foxes will be incorporated into the modified yeast. Yeast cells are then expected to produce proteins from which hair can develop.

Animal hair, like nails, grows from combinations of proteins. keratin. Finding the right combination is the team’s first task: a typical mammalian genome contains between 100 and 200. keratin genesHe writes for National Geographic.

Hair follicles taken from animals with real fur cannot be used in this study. The entire project should not be tested on animals. working with Fur keratin variantsqueue databases already exist.

“reasonable length”

“Our goal is enough keratins “Making a reasonable-length fiber for a fur-like material,” bioengineer Ellis tells National Geographic. The research project was launched in 2022 and is scheduled to take two years.

Source : Blick