{"id":166959,"date":"2023-07-05T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/lab-grown-meat-the-science-of-turning-cells-into-steaks-and-nuggets"},"modified":"2023-07-05T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T04:22:24","slug":"lab-grown-meat-the-science-of-turning-cells-into-steaks-and-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/lab-grown-meat-the-science-of-turning-cells-into-steaks-and-nuggets","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown meat: the science of turning cells into steaks and nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-meat-the-science-of-turning-cells-into-steaks-and-nuggets2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt tastes like chicken.\u201d That\u2019s a common review of UPSIDE Foods\u2019 new trial product. Perhaps that\u2019s not surprising: it is, after all, chicken \u2014 at the cellular level. But the fillets are not from a slaughterhouse. They are grown in bioreactors in an urban factory in California.<\/p>\n<p>Alittle over a decade ago, only a handful of researchers were investigating the potential of laboratory-made meat. The world\u2019s first cultured beef burger, which reportedly cost US$325,000, was made by Maastricht University biomedical engineer Mark Post, who ate it at a press conference in 2013. Such products are now much closer to market: more than 150 companies around the world are working on cultured meat (from ground beef to steaks, chicken, pork and fish), milk or related \u2018cellular agriculture\u2019 products, including leather.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Companies making cultured meat are attracting billions of dollars of investment. Here are their biggest challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt tastes like chicken.\u201d That\u2019s a common review of UPSIDE Foods\u2019 new trial product. Perhaps that\u2019s not surprising: it is, after all, chicken \u2014 at the cellular level. But the fillets are not from a slaughterhouse. They are grown in bioreactors in an urban factory in California. Alittle over a decade ago, only a handful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}