Hello everyone, In 2020, Singapore’s food agency approved an item called ‘chicken bites’ from the US company Eat Just. These pieces of meat are not from slaughtering chicken but are instead grown in bioreactors. Whilst producing hamburgers or chicken nuggets in a lab may sound futuristic, many companies are already producing meat in laboratories around the world. What exactly is lab-grown meat? How close are we to growing ‘real’ meat in a lab? We asked 2 experts in cell biology and biomedical engineering from Mosa Meat (a Dutch company that is working on cultured meat), ‘
Can we grow meat in a lab?
Can we grow meat in a lab?
Can we grow meat in a lab?
Hello everyone, In 2020, Singapore’s food agency approved an item called ‘chicken bites’ from the US company Eat Just. These pieces of meat are not from slaughtering chicken but are instead grown in bioreactors. Whilst producing hamburgers or chicken nuggets in a lab may sound futuristic, many companies are already producing meat in laboratories around the world. What exactly is lab-grown meat? How close are we to growing ‘real’ meat in a lab? We asked 2 experts in cell biology and biomedical engineering from Mosa Meat (a Dutch company that is working on cultured meat), ‘