Researchers grow muscle cells on edible fibers (Harvard Gazette)

[Pluvious]

This is something straight out of the classic SF novel:

"The Space Merchants is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth."

Lab-grown or cultured meat could revolutionize food production, providing a greener, more sustainable, more ethical alternative to large-scale meat production. But getting lab-grown meat from the petri dish to the dinner plate requires solving several major problems, including how to make large amounts of it and how to make it feel and taste more like real meat.

Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have grown rabbit and cow muscle cells on edible gelatin scaffolds that mimic the texture and consistency of meat, demonstrating that realistic meat products may eventually be produced without the need to raise and slaughter animals.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/lab-grown-meat-gains-muscle-as-it-moves-from-petri-dish-to-dinner-plate/

[unblock]

1. fascinating! could you grow human meat you could ethically eat? soylent people is green!

[rurallib]

4. How would you test it to see if it tastes the same?

[Midnight Writer]

5. Compare it to Farmer Vincent's Fritters.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Can they grow pizza yet? n/t

[John Fante]

3. Cultured meat is the future, make no mistake.