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Another step away from the farm: meat grown from immortal stem cells
Science Daily ^ | May 11, 2023 | Staff Writers

Posted on 05/11/2023 8:55:17 AM PDT by Salman

To make it possible for cellular agriculture-the process of growing meat in bioreactors-to feed millions of people, several technical challenges will have to be overcome. Muscle cells from chicken, fish, cows, and other food sources will have to be grown to produce millions of metric tons per year. Toward this goal, researchers at Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) developed immortalized bovine muscle stem cells (iBSCs) that can grow rapidly and divide hundreds of times, and possibly indefinitely. This advance, described in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology, means that researchers and companies around the globe can have access to and develop new products without having to source cells repeatedly from farm animal biopsies.

The production of cell-cultured meat will require muscle and fat cells with a very high capacity to grow and divide. While cell-grown meat has garnered media attention with examples such as the FDA preliminary approval of cultured chicken, and even a hamburger grown with mastodon DNA, the products are still expensive and difficult to scale up.

Normal muscle stem cells drawn from live animals to start a culture typically divide only about 50 times before they start to get "old" and are no longer viable. While it is theoretically possible for these stem cells to produce a substantial amount of meat, the immortalized cells developed by the TUCCA team offer several advantages. One is the possibility of producing significantly more mass for meat production.

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Hmmm. No thanks.
1 posted on 05/11/2023 8:55:17 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Aren’t those called tumors?


2 posted on 05/11/2023 8:58:40 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

Too-muhs


3 posted on 05/11/2023 8:59:45 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Salman

I’m in. Meat from Keith Richard’s stem cells. I might live forever! I might not remember much of it, but some things are a fair trade.


4 posted on 05/11/2023 9:00:03 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) We're all Women now.)
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To: Salman

So excited !


5 posted on 05/11/2023 9:04:33 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: Tench_Coxe

FRANKENMEAT

We are begged every year to Save the seals—the elephants—whatever-—

BUT they are deliberately destroying our food supply.


6 posted on 05/11/2023 9:07:10 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Salman

7 posted on 05/11/2023 9:10:32 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Salman

Do you want a zombie apocalypse? Because THIS is how you get a zombie apocalypse!


8 posted on 05/11/2023 9:10:41 AM PDT by Eastern Shore Virginian (I am 100% certain.........but I may be wrong.)
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To: Salman

The projection has to be that, like many artificial substitutes that are mass produced, it will be cheaper than the real thing.


9 posted on 05/11/2023 9:14:07 AM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: blackdog

*snrk*


10 posted on 05/11/2023 9:37:45 AM PDT by null and void (Be gentle with each other. You never know what someone is going through.)
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To: Salman

Deer are still making deer the old-fashioned way.


11 posted on 05/11/2023 9:49:11 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Salman
Test tube meat. Yum.

These nut jobs want to take all the enjoyment out of life. The taste of meat is directly related to what the animal eats.

12 posted on 05/11/2023 10:02:07 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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“Another step away from the farm: meat grown from immortal stem cells”

“immortal cells” = cancer cells ... period ...


13 posted on 05/11/2023 10:05:11 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: Salman

Fake food, because baby formula and hydrogenated vegetable oil have been so good for people’s health.


14 posted on 05/11/2023 10:15:23 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Faith Presses On
The projection has to be that, like many artificial substitutes that are mass produced, it will be cheaper than the real thing.

And it will destroy your health, like all over processed and fake foods do.

15 posted on 05/11/2023 10:16:22 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Aren’t those called tumors?"

Yeah, cancer meat...no thanks.

16 posted on 05/11/2023 10:34:04 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: Salman

Maybe that’s what’s wrong with Bill Gates he is eating his fake meat


17 posted on 05/11/2023 10:53:29 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Salman

Soylent Green??!!...next these lib morons will be eating...”ME”.
HaHa.


18 posted on 05/11/2023 11:00:02 AM PDT by hdrider
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To: Salman

Soylent Green is ‘People’.


19 posted on 05/11/2023 11:14:46 AM PDT by silent majority rising (Peace In Our Time)
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To: Salman

Immortal cells is cancer.


20 posted on 05/11/2023 11:15:39 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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