Killing a coat with your bare hands (or at least by pulling the plug or turning off the juice or something like that)

Posted: May 14, 2008 in Science

“I felt cruel when I turned it off…” Understandable. I mean the damn coat was alive and growing at an alarming rate, even though one of the sleeves had fallen off.

“One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of “Design and the Elastic Mind,” the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science, was a teeny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. The “victimless leather” was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients, unsettlingly alive. Until recently, that is…” Read rest of article.

NOTE: “unsettlingly alive”–Gees that gives my stomach the squirms.

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