IN VITRO MEAT EYES MAINSTREAM SUCCESS IN JUST A FEW YEARS
March 1st, 2016
Laboratory-grown meat has moved from a distant sci-fi concept to a realistic idea that could be commercialised and mainstream in just a few years, according to industry experts. “We aim to commercialise in four to five years, and it will become mainstream in the two to three years after that,” Prof Mark J Post, professor and chair of physiology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, told just-food. He successfully created the first lab-grown hamburger patty in 2013 by using muscle stem cells from a cow to grow muscle tissue, making what looked and felt ...
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