Fwd: Meat can be 'grown' in laboratories

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Admittedly, I could have missed this in the last few days. If so, please excuse

the duplication, but this seems important, so I took a chance.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/83C43DC5-EB8F-4504-A9D3-4E25CE6B7F05.htm

 

 

Meat can be 'grown' in laboratories

 

 

Thursday 07 July 2005, 5:55 Makka Time, 2:55 GMT

 

Laboratories using new tissue engineering technology might be able to produce

meat that is healthier for consumers and cut down on pollution produced by

factory farming.

 

 

While NASA engineers have grown fish tissue in lab dishes, no one has seriously

proposed a way to grow meat on commercial levels until now.

 

But a new study conducted by University of Maryland doctoral student Jason

Matheny and his colleagues describe two possible ways to do it.

 

Writing in the journal Tissue Engineering on Wednesday, Matheny said scientists

could grow cells from the muscle tissue of cattle, pigs, poultry or fish in

large flat sheets on thin membranes.

 

These sheets of cells would be grown and stretched, then removed from the

membranes and stacked to increase thickness and resemble meat. <snip>