RALEIGH, N.C. (WKRC) – A biomedical engineer discovered a method that can create real leather in a lab without necessitating the death of any animals.
George Engelmayr is a biomedical engineer at Cultivated Biomaterials, and he claims to have made a breakthrough discovery.
“We are the first company in the world to first sell a cultivated leather product,” Engelmayr said. “This is a leather grown harmlessly from the cells of a cow that is still alive… It is real.”…