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  • Spiber and North Face Japan create first readily-available spider silk jacket

    Spiber creates first commercially available jacket from emulated spider silk for The North Face

    Biotech start-up Spiber and The North Face's Japanese distributor Goldwin have created the first mass-manufactured jacket made from synthetic spider silk. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 24 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Aguahoja I pavilion by MIT Media Lab

    Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group is a robotically fabricated structure made of organic matter

    Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group has digitally designed and robotically fabricated a structure using the molecular components found in tree branches, insect exoskeletons and human bones. More

    Olivia Ladanyi | 17 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Algae tiles Indus by Bio-ID Lab at the London Design Festival 2019

    Bio-ID Lab designs DIY algae-infused tiles that can extract toxic dyes from water

    The Bio-Integrated Design Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture has created a modular system of tiles inlaid with algae that can filter toxic chemical dyes and heavy metals out of water. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 21 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Korvaa headphones by Aivan ar made from six different microbial materials

    Aivan grows headphones from fungus and yeast

    Fungus, yeast-based bioplastic and other materials grown by microbes have been used to make the Korvaa headphones, designed by Finnish studio Aivan in collaboration with scientists. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Tiger Penis Project by Kuang-Yi Ku

    Kuang-Yi Ku proposes creating hybrid animal organs for use in Chinese medicine

    The Tiger Penis Project is a speculative design that proposes using synthetic biology to create organs that can replace the animal products used in traditional Chinese medicine, including parts from endangered species. More

    Anna Winston | 15 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Synthetic Polleniser could help depleting bee population

    Brisbane-based artist Michael Candy has proposed a method of artificial pollination using 3D-printed robotic flowers, in a bid to help increase the dwindling bee population. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 19 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Pure Human by Tina Gorjanc, Central Saint Martins

    Alexander McQueen's DNA turned into human leather goods by Tina Gorjanc

    Graduate shows 2016: Central Saint Martins student Tina Gorjanc has proposed a conceptual range of leather accessories made of skin grown from late fashion designer Alexander McQueen's DNA (+ slideshow). More

    Emma Tucker | 11 July 2016 | 13 comments
  • lesley ann daly central saint martins graduate design material futures anthropomorphic sensory augmentation

    Lesley-Ann Daly's connected implants let wearers listen to their wellbeing

    Graduate shows 2016: this range of conceptual implants designed by Central Saint Martins graduate Lesley-Ann Daly allows wearers to track their health using sound. More

    Emma Tucker | 29 June 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Organs by Fraser Ross

    Fraser Ross' synthetic organs combine human and animal attributes

    Glasgow designer Fraser Ross has created a collection of seven conceptual human organs that would perform extra functions like squirting ink and spinning silk (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 17 December 2015 | Leave a comment
  • Puffball from Designing for the Sixth Extinction by Daisy Ginsberg

    Synthetic biology is turning into industrial design, says Daisy Ginsberg

    Advances in genetic technology mean that creating synthetic animals has become just another branch of industrial design, according to Daisy Ginsberg. More

    Dan Howarth | 10 December 2015 | 1 comment
  • Farma home bioreactor by Will Patrick

    Will Patrick's Farma bioreactor could let owners brew their own drugs

    MIT Media Lab graduate Will Patrick has designed a prototype desktop bioreactor that could enable the production of pharmaceutical drugs at home. More

    Emma Tucker | 8 December 2015 | 1 comment
  • Synbio Amino tamagotchi by MIT Media Lab

    Julie Legault's Amino bio-engineering kit creates a bacterial Tamagotchi

    Canadian designer Julie Legault has developed a desktop biolab to make synthetic biology more accessible, allowing users to hack DNA at home and monitor the progress of their creations (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 28 October 2015 | 1 comment
  • Digestive Car by Yi-Wen Tseng RCA for LDF

    Yi-Wen Tseng's methane-powered concept car is modelled on a cow's digestive system

    London Design Festival 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Yi-Wen Tseng has imagined a car powered by bio-printed organs, using synthetic biology to turn a cow's digestive process into a fuel system. More

    Emma Tucker | 4 October 2015 | 4 comments
  • Minkyung by Celine Park

    Mushroom inhalers replace vaccination needles in RCA student proposal

    For those scared of injections, Royal College of Art student Celine Park has proposed a new immunisation technique: inhaling vaccines through fungus (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 16 July 2015 | Leave a comment
  • The Cow of Tomorrow by Paul Gong

    Bloodflow of beefed-up bovines harnessed for energy in The Cow of Tomorrow project

    Graduate shows 2015: tiny turbines installed in the arteries of genetically modified cows provide a solution to future energy production in this fictional scenario by RCA graduate Paul Gong. More

    Dan Howarth | 9 July 2015 | 12 comments
  • Neri Oxman's photosynthetic wearable

    Neri Oxman 3D prints "photosynthetic wearable" to host living organisms

    Designer and researcher Neri Oxman has successfully 3D-printed one of her "wearable skins" and filled its hollow tubes with a bacterial luminescent liquid to represent how it could host photosynthetic organisms (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 1 June 2015 | 4 comments
  • Bistro in Vitro is a virtual restaurant serving the artificial meat dishes of the future

    Dutch artist and philosopher Koert Mensvoort has launched a virtual restaurant featuring a menu of conceptual dishes that could be made possible by lab-grown meat – including knitted mince, a cocktail made from meat foam and sausages grown from living pets (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 11 May 2015 | 3 comments
  • Vivorium by Ali Schachtschneider

    Lab-grown materials form fashion and furniture for Vivorium lifestyle concept

    New York designer Ali Schachtschneider has imagined a future in which biologically grown materials are used to create furniture, garments and tools that would become "extensions of the body". More

    Dan Howarth | 10 May 2015 | 5 comments
  • Growduce by Aakriti Jain and Guillian Graves

    Growduce "micro-factory" concept would allow users to grow their own products

    A biologist and a designer are developing a bacteria and yeast "micro-factory" that could one day enable consumers to grow their own products at home (+ slideshow). More

    Katie Treggiden | 4 May 2015 | 2 comments
  • Enhance Your Eye by MHOX

    MHOX envisions a future of bioprinted and enhanced human eyes

    Italian research studio MHOX has unveiled a concept to allow people to swap their eyes with digital-compatible versions. More

    Dan Howarth | 19 March 2015 | 8 comments
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