American scientists say they have developed a way to grow wood material in a laboratory. The method could create different wood products indoors in a single process, greatly cutting the cost of production and reducing damage to the world’s forests. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated a proof of concept by growing wood-like structures from cells taken from the leaves of a flowering plant. The results were recently reported in a study appearing in the Journal of Cleaner Production. The lead researcher on the project was Luis Fernando Velsquez-Garca, a scientist in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories.
Title: Scientists Develop Method to Grow Wood in a Lab
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data-start-time='24646' data-end-time='42583'>Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) demonstrated a proof of concept by growing wood-like structures from cells taken from the leaves of a flowering plant.</span> <span data-start-time='42583' data-end-time='51438'>The results were recently reported in a study appearing in the Journal of Cleaner Production. </span> <span data-start-time='51438' data-end-time='66229'>The lead researcher on the project was Luis Fernando Velsquez-Garca, a scientist in MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' 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