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Biotech Firm Creates Fake Rhino Horn To Flood Chinese Market, Reducing Demand For Poaching

A San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. It plans to flood Chinese market with these cheap horns to curb poaching.

August 04th, 2015

By Digital Journal

Pembient, based in San Francisco uses keratin — a type of fibrous protein — and rhino DNA to produce a dried powder which is then 3D printed into synthetic rhino horns which is genetically and spectrographically similar to original rhino horns.  The company plans to release a beer brewed with the synthetic horn later this year in the Chinese

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