Nuggets of lab-grown meat now on the table

Nuggets of lab-grown meat now on the table

Chicken produced with 1125-fiber bioreactor. Credit: Shoji Takeuchi, The University of Tokyo Cultured or lab-grown meats have been touted as next great alternative to animal products since the first artificial burger patty was grown in 2013. Though lab-grown meat products have been commercially available in some countries since 2020, they remain expensive, novelty foods with many challenges to address to become widely available. One major obstac…

Cultivated Meat 'Breakthrough' Mimics Circulatory System, Grows Chicken 'Nuggets'

A group of Japanese researchers has made a “breakthrough” in cultivated meat production. The University of Tokyo’s Professor Shoji Takeuchi and his team have developed technology that imitates a circulatory system and evenly distributes nutrients throughout a piece of meat. The researchers successfully grew 1 by 2 cm long, nugget-style chicken pieces. Scientists have been working on the scalable production of cultivated meat – also known as as c…

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Chicken nuggets have been grown in a lab for the first time

Japanese scientists have invented a process that mimics blood vessels to allow cells to grow in layers of muscle tissue, and the breakthrough could finally lead to meat being realistically engineered. Lab-grown chicken is currently made using sheets of cells less than 1mm thick that need to be processed into something that resembles meat, leading to an unrealistic texture. The engineers in Tokyo produced a bite-sized piece of chicken weighi…