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You can now make a picture frame out of your own placenta

If you’re not going to drink it in a smoothie that is.

Nov 26th 2013, 7:30 PM 1,646 Views 1 Comment

PEOPLE ARE MAD for placentas these days. If they’re not drinking them in smoothies, they’re turning them into picture frames.

Or at least one person is turning them into picture frames.

Placenta photo frame Source: Jim Holden/University of Brighto

Amanda Cotton, of the University of Brighton, has developed a technique which begins with boiling and cooking the placenta before grinding it into small pieces.

She then adds the pieces of placenta to clear resin before casting it in a mold.

The result is a marble effect material which can be easily turned into a picture frame to hold a photograph. Presumably of the baby.

Placenta photo frame Source: Jim Holden/University of Brighto

Sure what else would you be doing with your placenta?

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You can now make a picture frame out of your own placenta

If you’re not going to drink it in a smoothie that is.

Equality activists create LGBT-friendly IKEA catalogue after Russian controversy>