Making Lab-Grown Leather From Cow Cells -- And Inching Toward Production
VitroLabs is on a mission to create environmentally-friendly, sustainable leather -- from cow cells. Launched in 2016, the Milpitas, Cal., company has developed a tissue engineering process that takes a collection of a few cells from cows (potentially ostriches or crocodiles, too), nurtures them and turns them into full thickness hides.