{"id":194437,"date":"2024-08-12T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/plastic-free-vegan-leather-that-dyes-itself-grown-from-bacteria"},"modified":"2024-08-12T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:28:08","slug":"plastic-free-vegan-leather-that-dyes-itself-grown-from-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/plastic-free-vegan-leather-that-dyes-itself-grown-from-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Plastic-free vegan leather that dyes itself grown from bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plastic-free-vegan-leather-that-dyes-itself-grown-from-bacteria.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p> Inventing a new, faster way to produce sustainable, self-dyed leather alternatives is a major achievement for synthetic biology and sustainable fashion. Professor Tom Ellis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Synthetic chemical dyeing is one of the most environmentally toxic processes in fashion, and black dyes \u2013 especially those used in colouring leather \u2013 are particularly harmful. The researchers at Imperial set out to use biology to solve this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inventing a new, faster way to produce sustainable, self-dyed leather alternatives is a major achievement for synthetic biology and sustainable fashion. Professor Tom Ellis Synthetic chemical dyeing is one of the most environmentally toxic processes in fashion, and black dyes \u2013 especially those used in colouring leather \u2013 are particularly harmful. The researchers at Imperial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}