{"id":211942,"date":"2025-04-20T21:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/fake-blood-vessels-mean-lab-grown-chicken-can-now-be-nugget-sized"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T02:04:22","slug":"fake-blood-vessels-mean-lab-grown-chicken-can-now-be-nugget-sized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/fake-blood-vessels-mean-lab-grown-chicken-can-now-be-nugget-sized","title":{"rendered":"Fake Blood Vessels Mean Lab-Grown Chicken Can Now Be Nugget Sized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fake-blood-vessels-mean-lab-grown-chicken-can-now-be-nugget-sized2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are closer to growing chicken nuggets in the lab, thanks to the use of tiny hollow fibers that mimic blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultured_meat\">cultured meat<\/a> has been advancing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/singapore-will-be-the-first-country-to-have-lab-grown-meat-up-for-sale\">some time now<\/a>, it\u2019s been limited to thin strips of less than a millimeter. Creating a thicker product with a familiar appeal has so far proven elusive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReplicating the texture and taste of whole-cut meat remains difficult,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1080163?\">explains<\/a> biomedical engineer Shoji Takeuchi from The University of Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are closer to growing chicken nuggets in the lab, thanks to the use of tiny hollow fibers that mimic blood vessels. While cultured meat has been advancing for some time now, it\u2019s been limited to thin strips of less than a millimeter. Creating a thicker product with a familiar appeal has so far proven [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211942","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}