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Jurassic bag: From dinosaur DNA to designer goods – how biofabrication and automation could reshape materials

A luxury handbag made from Tyrannosaurus rex protein sounds like a publicity stunt. In some ways, it is. But behind the spectacle lies something more significant: a glimpse of how materials themselves may soon be designed, grown, and manufactured throu…