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Another biotech company, the U.K.-based Lab-Grown Leather Ltd., will then use those specialized cells to produce skin, made with the T-Rex collagen protein, which is then tanned to form T-Rex leather.
T. rex leather infographic explaining how the lab-grown engineering differs from the current leather process. VML. In order to create it, synthetic DNA will be used to engineer cells that will ...
The study reveals a sobering stat: of the 141 scientifically useful T. rex fossils known to exist, over half—71 specimens—are in private or commercial hands, rather than public museums or ...
As it currently stands, the oldest known DNA ever sequenced comes from a 1.6-million-year-old mammoth and the T. rex went extinct roughly 66 million years ago. Instead, the group plans to work ...
While the bulkier rex resembles the “Bull T. rex” from Kenner’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park toyline in 1997, Edwards cited another inspiration: The Valley of Gwangi, a 1969 film which ...
Sue Hendrickson, who discovered the Field Museum's T. rex dinosaur, is awarded an honorary degree at the University of Illinois Chicago on May 7, 2000. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune) ...
As the Field Museum celebrates 25 years since the debut of Sue, here’s a look back at how the T. rex made its way from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Chicago.