Scientists say lab synthetic meat will become a reality

Beijing time January 20 news, according to the British "Daily Mail" report, scientists have announced that the technology of synthesis of meat in the laboratory has been fully grasped, what is currently being studied is how to further reduce its cost in order to achieve profitability. At present, there are about 30 research groups in the world that are currently working on the production of meat products in the laboratory. With a large number of funds and professionals joining the ranks, this technology will hopefully help solve the problem of hunger that afflicts humanity.

Using this technology, people can use a small amount of muscle cells to make a lot of meat, so this is a more ecologically friendly technology and can significantly reduce the killing of animals. The Animal Welfare Organization "Peta" has promised $1 million to reward any scientist who could prove that the laboratory-developed muscle can be put into commercial sales by 2016.

Now, according to the "Food Safety News" report, this breakthrough in lab-cultivated meat may come earlier in 2012. Mark Post, from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, recently announced that laboratory synthetic meat will soon begin production in his laboratory.

His research was funded by the Dutch government and there was an anonymous donation from the donor. The anonymous person donated 300,000 euros to Professor Post to use for this study. Unfortunately, Professor Post's research work is not in line with the conditions for rewards offered by Peta, because he cultivates beef instead of chicken.

In the United States on the other side of the Atlantic, the University of Missouri is funding Professor Nicholas Genovese to support him in his research work with another professor, Michael Roberts. Both are top scientists in the United States in terms of stem cell and livestock breeding. Prior to this, Prof. Genoves had already conducted related research work with Prof. Vladimir Mironov of the University of South Carolina. Professor Mironov has now transferred his research work to Brazilian territory. The Brazilian government is also currently working on the research and development of artificial meat synthesis.

Once scientists have achieved a breakthrough and found a way to achieve industrial production, the price of this "test tube meat" will be expected to drop to a cheaper level than traditional meat. However, whether this idea can become a reality is an important one. It is whether or not test tube meat can be accepted by the majority of consumers. Does the public still tend to want the steaks they eat, and the meat is grown in nature, not from test tubes?

In addition, the unique texture of natural meat is one of the most difficult to imitate all meat characteristics, so it is expected that the first batch of synthetic meats will hardly have these subtle characteristics of natural meat. It may be more like processed meat products such as patties or sausages.

In order to make this test tube meat, scientists first remove the muscle cells from the animal and place it in a protein nutrient solution. In this process, the tiny cells that originally needed to be seen by a microscope undergo multiple proliferations and begin to form tissues, just like the hatching process of an egg. Some researchers pointed out that as long as the proper primitive cultured cells are used and the correct method, only 10 pork cells can be used to grow 50,000 tons of pork in two months.

The Peta organization claimed that the reason why the organization rewarded the research work of promoting meat production in laboratories was that many people “cannot get rid of their hobby for eating meat”. According to the organization’s reward circular, any scientist in the world can successfully develop synthetic chicken with the same taste and texture as natural chicken, and sell at least 2,000 pounds in the markets of 10 US states before the beginning of 2016. 907 kilograms), you can get a reward of 1 million US dollars. (morning)

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