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Originally Posted by jwoody
To grow an endless supply of food from one cell is the equivalent of inventing the perpetual motion machine. It simply isn't possible to create something from nothing.
What is the engineered tissue they are using?
What is this nutrient rich medium?
The answer appears to be collagen.
As collagen only occurs in animals and there is no synthetic alternative, mass consumption of lab-meat would require a large number of collagen rich cows to satisfy demand.
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jwoody, you ask some good questions,
I do not have the scientific education to explain any better than the article can. I have a social work degree, not a science degree . . .
But i think the idea is to create a way of copying the cell and it would regenerate over and over, so i also assume that would mean it would have less variety in the meat itself.
And even if they do use initial cells from real animals, that would greatly decrease the needed number of cows by hundreds of thousands if not a million.
Sweetpea