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  • ‘Frankenstein’ meat grown in petri dish in space in world first

    10/07/2019 7:59:58 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    The Sun UK ^ | 7 Oct 2019, 15:57 | Harry Pettit,
    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...