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Natsai Audrey Chieza: Fashion has a pollution problem - can biology fix it?

Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission -- to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing new things to wear. In her lab, she noticed that the bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor makes a striking red-purple pigment, and now she's using it to develop bold, color-fast fabric dye that cuts down on water waste and chemical runoff, compared with traditional dyes. And she isn't alone in using synthetic biology to redefine our material future; think -- "leather" made from mushrooms and superstrong yarn made from spider-silk protein. We're not going to build the future with fossil fuels, Chieza says. We're going to build it with biology.

English
  • Originally Aired November 29, 2017
  • Runtime 15 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code NatsaiAudreyChieza_2017S
  • Network YouTube
  • Created March 28, 2019 by
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Name Type Role
Natsai Audrey Chieza Guest Star