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	Podcast:		TED Talks Daily
	Episode:		Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it? \| Natsai Audrey Chieza
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:13:14
	Publish Date:		2017-11-29 10:01:33
	Description:		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.
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