(Nanowerk News) Leather is an ever growing multi-billion dollar industry requiring more than 3.8 billion bovine animals – equal to one for every two people on earth – to sustain production each year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alt. Leather, an Australian startup, has developed a sustainable, plant-based leather alternative that eliminates animal products, ...

Engineers have created an environmentally friendly leather alternative made from silk. The material can be printed into different patterns and textures, has similar physical properties to real leather ...

The photographs of lab-grown leather recently on view in the Pratt Photography Gallery ranged from delicate brown gradients to deep tawny tones, some with richly textural surfaces reminiscent of ...