In Vitro Meat By RAIZEL ROBIN Published: December 11, 2005 In July, scientists at the University of Maryland announced the development of bioengineering techniques that could be used to mass-produce a new food for public consumption: meat that is grown in incubators. The process works by taking stem cells from a biopsy of a live animal (or a piece of flesh from a slaughtered animal) and putting them in a three-dimensional growth medium - a sort of scaffolding made of proteins. [snip] Scientists at NASA and at several Dutch universities have been developing the technology since 2001, and in a...
