Cultured meat

Cultured meat, also called synthetic meat, is meat grown in cell culture instead of inside animals.^[1] It is a form of cellular agriculture. Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques used in regenerative medicine.^[2] Up to now the cost to produce cultured meat has been extremely high.^[3] The first cultured beef burger patty, created by Dr. Mark Post at Maastricht University, was eaten at a demonstration for the press in London in August 2013.^[4]

Cultured Meat Media

Presentation of the world's first cultured hamburger being fried at a news conference in London on 5 August 2013
The Meat Revolution, a lecture at the World Economic Forum by Mark Post of the University of Maastricht about in vitro meat
A video by New Harvest and Xprize explaining the development of cultured meat and a "post-animal bio-economy" driven by lab-grown protein (meat, eggs, milk)
The moment when Austrian nutritional scientist Hanni Rützler tasted the world's first cultured hamburger in London on 5 August 2013. The cultured meat product was developed by a team of scientists from Maastricht University led by Mark Post at a cost of €250,000.
Pasta dish with strips of Good Meat's cultivated chicken meat, served to the public in a restaurant in Singapore.
Diagram of cultured meat's production process.
Stem cells can differentiate into a range of specialized cells.
Muscle precursor cells are called myoblasts. Fibers are made of actin, in yellow, and the nuclei are shown in blue.
cross section: smooth muscle magnification: 400x
Bioprinting that assembles cell fibers could be used to produce a variety of steak-like cultured meat.