Category: Synthetic Meat

Current challenge Growing skeletal muscle and fat tissue in isolation may be an inappropriate oversimplification of the process of muscle tissue growth in vitro. Therefore, some of the challenges associated with cultivated meat production may arise from the lack of support cells from the growth environment. For example, as cells consume nutrients, lactic acid accumulates…

Bioreactors are essential tools for the food and pharmaceutical industries. They are used in fermentation, to produce alcohol, and convert raw materials like corn into useful by-products such as ethanol by food manufacturers. Biopharmaceutical companies also exploit bioreactors for production of biologics, vaccines, and antibodies. The main advantage of using bioreactors is scalable manufacturing. Commercially…

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef. He Has a Point. Bill Gates suggests synthetic beef like Beyond Meat is a key part of climate action. Lab-grown meat still has extremely high costs, but taste-wise, it has passed muster. Gates pushes meat alternatives because of meat’s high cost in…

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m a beef farmer’s daughter who no longer eats meat. But far from feeling a smug sense of satisfaction about playing my part to help save the planet, it’s left me wondering about what’s going to become of a sector that’s been a visible part of the fabric of Irish life…

Though the private cellular agriculture industry has made strides in recent years, including the launch of the world’s first commercially available cultured meat product in Singapore in 2020, this funding in public research comes at a time when several factors stifle significant production scale-up: the high cost of production, incomplete knowledge of consumer preferences, and…

Ahh, coffee. Is there anything more delicious, more satisfying? It’s always there when you need it, be it first thing in the morning or for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up. According to the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, global consumption of this vital brew is around 600 billion cups per year (I know—I would have guessed higher, too). But…

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef. He Has a Point. Bill Gates suggests synthetic beef like Beyond Meat is a key part of climate action. Lab-grown meat still has extremely high costs, but taste-wise, it has passed muster. Gates pushes meat alternatives because of meat’s high cost in…

Cinnamon procyanidin oligomers (CPOs) are water-soluble components extracted from cinnamon. This study aims to explore the neuroprotection of B-type CPO (CPO-B) against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+)-mediated cytotoxicity and the molecular mechanisms underlying its protection. The results demonstrated that CPO-B showed protection by increasing cell viability, attenuating an intracellular level of reactive oxygen species, downregulating cleaved caspase-3 expression,…