In an advance for cultivated meat technology, researchers have developed bovine muscle stem cells that produce their own growth factors, eliminating the need to add the expensive ingredient in the growth media.
Tag: cellular agriculture
Lab-Grown Fat Could Give Cultured Meat Real Flavor and Texture
Researchers have developed a method to produce fat tissue grown from cells at large scale. The cultured fat will help add flavor and texture to cultured meat that more closely replicates the look, feel and taste of meat derived from farm animals.
Tufts Receives $10 Million Grant to Help Develop Cultivated Meat
A multi-institution team led by Tufts University has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop meat produced not from farm animals, but from cells grown in bioreactors. It’s the first such investment in the technology by the USDA