How a Bacteria Grew a Shoe

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We can grow shoes in the lab. Yeah it struck me as crazy also, but it's true. A start up company, Modern Synthesis, are growing shoes made of cellulose in the lab using bacteria. This week I'm taking a look at whether these shoes can help tackle the problems brought on by fast fashion. And how as we learn to engineer nature to our needs, nature is also teaching us how to do better engineering.


#labgrown #syntheticbiology #fastfashion

0:00 Introduction
1:00 The problem with fast fashion
1:35 Meet the team growing shoes in the lab
2:46 How are lab grown shoes made?
4:31 This field is known as Synthetic Biology
5:10 What nature is teaching us about engineering
6:22 How we are learning to make better aircraft components
7:28 How engineering helped Eluid Kipchoge break the marathon world record
8:49 Can these technologies save the planet?
9:40 Ad read
10:42 Conclusion



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