Evan Bernstein

Oh my gosh, seriously.

Wow.

This is them.

To engineer leather from an extinct species, the team began with fossilized T-Rex collagen sequences.

Wow.

Using advanced computational biology and AI modeling, scientists predicted and reconstructed the remaining genetic information required to form a complete collagen blueprint.

This fully synthesized DNA was inserted into a carrier cell line.

Billions of these engineered cells were then cultivated using their own proprietary tools and things.

The piece demonstrates that by going back 68 million years, it's possible to create the leather of the future.

What do you think of that when you hear that?

I mean, how can you not be skeptical of that right off the bat?

Of course.

I mean, there's just so much there that seems, feels wrong, is wrong, but is it wrong?

I mean, what are we really talking about?

So the handbag obviously is not made from actual Tyrannosaurus Rex skin.

That's first and foremost.

I would say here's a more accurate description.

This is lab-grown collagen-based leather inspired by a computer-generated reconstruction of a possible T. rex collagen sequence using mostly modern biological data and engineered cells.

Emphasis on the word possible.

The sequences they claim to have used to make this product, they might not even be T-Rex at all.