Posted on 10/07/2019 7:59:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Israeli and Russian scientists cultured the tiny piece of beef from stem cells while aboard the International Space Station, 248 miles above the Earth's surface.
Cow cells were harvested back on our planet and blasted to the station where they they were grown into muscle tissue using a special 3D printer. Run by Aleph Farms, a food firm that grows cultivated beef steaks, the experiment took place on September 26 within the Russian segment of the space station.
Researchers said the project was carried out to show how lab-grown meat can be cultivated in tough conditions, with minimal resources.
"We are proving that cultivated meat can be produced anytime, anywhere, in any condition," said Aleph Farms boss Didier Toubia. "We can potentially provide a powerful solution to produce the food closer to the population needing it, at the exact and right time it is needed.
To grow the meat from cow cells, scientists mimicked the natural process of muscle cell regeneration occurring inside a cow's body.
It required the use of a special gadget known as a 3D bioprinter, which sticks together live cells to create something resembling real tissue.
Lab-grown or "slaughter-free" meat looks and tastes like the real thing, but is produced without killing farm animals. It's previously been labelled "Frankenstein" meat as it's made using the cells of other animals.
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I would imagine they need to feed these cells to get them to multiply? Probably much easier and cheaper to just send up frozen meat, but maybe the Astronauts need something to do up there to keep them from drilling holes?
I guess in theory you could grow human organs too. What could go wrong?
Ew! Why's my burger *green*?!? ;^)
BBQ in deep space!
“...to create something resembling real tissue”
Mmmmm....yummie.
lol
Space Madness...
Gack! Who in the hell would want to eat that shit?!
I’d rather eat insects or fried dormice instead of lab grown meat.
So the nursery rhyme was true.
“World first”? how can it be a “world first” if it’s in space?
Show it to the aliens responsible for the cattle mutilations. Save the ranchers.
Hunting, raising, and killing animals is 100% in accord with human nature. Humans have been doing it for millennia. Therefore there is nothing wrong with it.
Eating animal protein is a very efficient way of getting protein. Animal protein allowed our brains to develop the way they did.
So cut the crap about meat being bad, and that we have to eat grasshoppers and tofu.
Isaac Asimov wrote about beef being grown in space a long time ago. When you have humans that far from protein it makes sense.
What’s for dinner tonite, Cosmonaut? Print me a couple, I’m famished.
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