Lady Gaga’s Fiancé Turns Leftover Human Skin Into AI-Powered Beauty Secrets
KEY POINTS
- •Michael Polansky cofounded Outer Bio in 2020, focusing on human skin research using AI and living tissue.
- •Lady Gaga serves on Outer Bio’s board while also partnering through her cosmetics brand, Haus Labs.
- •Outer Bio developed 'Yuna' in 2022 to keep donated living skin alive for up to four weeks, aiding long-term studies.
Michael Polansky, busy man of many hats—including nonprofit mogul, early-stage VC, asset manager, Grammy-nominated co-songwriter on Lady Gaga's 2020s album 'Mayhem,' and apparently skin farmer—founded Outer Bio in Massachusetts in 2020. This biotech venture collects discarded human skin from hospitals and surgeries, then uses a 3D-printed R&D system named Yuna (because 'Skinbot 3000' didn't land) to keep the skin alive for four weeks. Polansky and Gaga, who’s on both Outer Bio and her own Haus Labs’ boards, insist their AI isn’t generative but 'predictive,' using real human skin data to find new bioactive ingredients destined for your local CVS shelf, all while juggling a newborn. Their grand vision? Accelerating skin science innovation by better data, not magic.
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(1 of 3)Congrats to Michael Polansky for turning hospital scrap skin and Lady Gaga’s boardroom meetings into futuristic skincare. We’re one AI-generated facelift away from a sci-fi beauty dystopia.
Nothing screams true love like harvesting donated human skin and naming your lab helper Yuna. Romance is skin-deep, apparently.
Outer Bio: because messing with leftover skin is the only way AI can predict whether your wrinkle cream works. Gaga’s leagues ahead — of weird.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 9/14/2026 | Author: Lauren Edmonds
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