Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole meat can be grown in the lab

Biotech Breakthrough "Grows" Chicken Meat in the Lab—Could Artificial Organs be Next?

In a major leap for the future of lab-grown meat, researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a new bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system to grow realistic cuts of chicken muscle—no feathers, no beaks, and no farms required. Their system, described in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, successfully produced over 10 grams of structured chicken meat, potentially bringing the dream of whole-cut cultured meat one step closer to our…

Japanese scientists grow chicken with texture of real meat in lab

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Production of organs intended for regenerative medicine, for drug testing and for the construction of biohybrid robots. These are the fields where laboratory-produced chicken nuggets could prove useful. The pieces of cultured meat weigh more than 10 grams and were obtained by the University of Tokyo thanks to a special bioreactor that mimics the circulatory system, providing oxygen and nutrients to the tissue grown in vitro in order to obtain la…

Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole meat can be grown in the lab

A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of chicken muscle for cultured meat applications. These results are published in Trends in Biotechnology.