Artificial meat: UK scientists growing ‘bacon’ in labs

Scientists at the University of Bath have grown animal cells on blades of grass, in a step towards cultured meat. Image caption

In the labs at Bath, the building blocks of artificial meat

In the future, you would take a biopsy from a pig, isolate stem (master) cells, grow more cells, then put them into a bioreactor to massively expand them, says postgraduate student Nick Shorten of Aberystwyth University. “What we’re doing here is looking to design bioreactors, and the bioprocess around the bioreactors, to grow muscle cells on a large scale that is economical and safe and high quality, so we can supply the muscle cells as cultured meats to as many people as want it,” says Dr Ellis.

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