Dutch Scientists Grow First Pork Meat In Lab
Technology A Dutch project that launched in 2005 has finally borne fruit: cells from a delicious pig have been cultured in the laboratory to grow the first successful filet of in vitro… A Dutch...
View ArticleEngineers of Laboratory-Grown Muscle Figure Out How to Make It Firm and Strong
Science ...and tasty? In 2009, we heard the wonderful news that scientists at Holland's Eindhoven University of Technology had successfully grown pork in a petri dish: a giant step toward the… In...
View ArticleAt Tissue Engineering Conference, The Future of Endangered-Meat Burgers and...
Technology Earlier this week, we rejoiced at some promising news about the future of creating tasty meat without killing animals. Today, New Scientist is reporting from a workshop in… Earlier this...
View ArticleEnvisioning A Future Of Custom-Grown Meat
Technology "Today's special meat is a chop of Grévy's zebra flank, fresh out of the exercise amplifier and seared in giant squid fat." The era of exotic meats grown to order--with no animals killed in...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals What Today's America Thinks The Future Looks Like
Cars We still want flying cars, but we'll settle for driverless ones. In the next 50 years, Americans think they probably won't ride in driverless cars, that robots flying outside will have made...
View ArticleWhat Does It Take To Make Meat From Stem Cells?
Science More than you might realize Made with some breadcrumbs, egg, and 20,000 lab-grown cow muscle cells, the world's first lab-grown burger made its debut last year. It was a proof of concept,...
View ArticleA Roundtable Discussion On The Future Of Meat
Technology Will we have meat in the future? Will it come from animals or machines? The Museum of Food and Drink hosted a roundtable debate about the Future of Meat in October, and PopSci was there....
View ArticleShould Beef Come From A Petri Dish? [Video]
Environment Working toward moo-less meat Raising livestock takes a huge toll on the environment, including the water and feed that cows consume and the methane and waste they emit. That's why Andras...
View ArticleTemple Grandin Wants The World To Raise Resilient Animals
Animals That means drastically changing the way we breed livestock In the 1990s, animal scientist and autism advocate Temple Grandin revamped the livestock industry to improve animal welfare and food...
View ArticleLab-grown meat might not be the answer to our protein problem
Environment It’ll be more efficient than the real thing, but that’s not saying much. It’ll be more efficient than the real thing, but that’s not saying much. Here’s how lab-grown meat actually...
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