By James Dinneen – New Scientist –
Growing wood directly from stem cells could offer an alternative to cutting threatened hardwood trees, but it isn’t clear if it has same properties as actual wood.
What may be the world’s first piece of lab-grown wood isn’t quite big enough to qualify as a woodchip – it’s more like a splinter. But the tiny fragment could be a big step towards reducing the number of trees chopped down to meet our lumber demands, if it holds up to the task.
