{"id":170120,"date":"2023-08-20T23:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/qa-growing-steaks-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:25:49","slug":"qa-growing-steaks-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/qa-growing-steaks-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Growing Steaks in the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qa-growing-steaks-in-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicist Luke MacQueen combines tissue engineering with stem cell technologies to produce synthetic meat whose texture mimics that of natural meat.<\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill\u2014the well-known wartime leader and lesser-known Nobel Laureate in Literature\u2014published an essay in 1931 in <i>The Strand Magazine<\/i> in which he imagined the future \u201cFifty Years Hence.\u201d Many of his predictions turned out to be prophetic\u2014wireless telephones, television, and nuclear power\u2014while others read like science fiction. But one of his futuristic ideas\u2014growing meat in a lab\u2014may just be a few years away, if <a target=\"xrefwindow\" href=\"http:\/\/diseasebiophysics.seas.harvard.edu\/\" id=\"d5e77\">Luke MacQueen<\/a> of Harvard University has his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Luke MacQueen combines tissue engineering with stem cell technologies to produce synthetic meat whose texture mimics that of natural meat. Winston Churchill\u2014the well-known wartime leader and lesser-known Nobel Laureate in Literature\u2014published an essay in 1931 in The Strand Magazine in which he imagined the future \u201cFifty Years Hence.\u201d Many of his predictions turned out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170120","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}