According to the website TED.com, Andrew Pelling is a biohacker whose favorite materials are simple ones, often found in garbage. The Canadian-based scientist says he’s building on the cellulose structure that gives an apple its shape and pioneering a process that might someday be used to repair body parts safely and cheaply “with stuff we make in the kitchen…”
Andrew E. Pelling, Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa. (Photo courtesy University of Ottawa)
Read about Pelling’s attempt to produce parts from produce in a blog by OZY author Melissa Pandika…
For more about Andrew Pelling’s unconventional and creative scientific approach, check out TED.com for a video, transcript and footnotes from a talk he gave earlier this year…
