Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Your Cosmetics
Inside the Lab that Grows Human Skin to Test Your Cosmetics
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 3, 20178m 0s
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Show Notes
Monday is shipping day at MatTek. A truck pulls up to its red brick lab outside of Boston to load box after box, all kept at a cool 39 degrees. The precious, perishable cargo is human skin—thousands of dime-sized pieces in plastic dishes that add up, altogether, to about two whole adult humans’ worth. Every week. It’s not harvested from people, though.
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