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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Aren’t those called tumors?
Too-muhs
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.
So excited !
FRANKENMEAT
We are begged every year to Save the seals—the elephants—whatever-—
BUT they are deliberately destroying our food supply.
Do you want a zombie apocalypse? Because THIS is how you get a zombie apocalypse!
The projection has to be that, like many artificial substitutes that are mass produced, it will be cheaper than the real thing.
*snrk*
Deer are still making deer the old-fashioned way.
These nut jobs want to take all the enjoyment out of life. The taste of meat is directly related to what the animal eats.
“Another step away from the farm: meat grown from immortal stem cells”
“immortal cells” = cancer cells ... period ...
Fake food, because baby formula and hydrogenated vegetable oil have been so good for people’s health.
And it will destroy your health, like all over processed and fake foods do.
Yeah, cancer meat...no thanks.
Maybe that’s what’s wrong with Bill Gates he is eating his fake meat
Soylent Green??!!...next these lib morons will be eating...”ME”.
HaHa.
Soylent Green is ‘People’.
Immortal cells is cancer.
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