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Materials For The Future - The Plant Age

Oded Shoseyov • TEDxGateway

Bringing together the toughness of cellulose nano-fibers from the plant kingdom, the remarkable elasticity and resilience of resilin that enables cat flees to jump as high as 100 times their height from the insect kingdom combined with Human collagen for bio-printing of tissues and organs and humanized antibodies as biologic drugs. These are the materials of the future, all maybe produced in plants.

Bringing together the toughness of cellulose nano-fibers from the plant kingdom, the remarkable elasticity and resilience of resilin that enables cat flees to jump as high as 100 times their height from the insect kingdom combined with Human collagen for bio-printing of tissues and organs and humanized antibodies as biologic drugs. These are the materials of the future, all maybe produced in plants.

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