Decellularised spinach serves as edible platform for laboratory-grown meat ANI | Updated: Apr 04, 2021 20:08 IST
Washington [US], April 4 (ANI): During a recent study, Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers grew meat cells, an advancement that may accelerate the development of cultured meat.
The research, led by a Boston College engineer, was published in the advanced online edition of the journal Food BioScience.The results may help increase the production of cellular agriculture products to meet rising demand and reduce environmental costs.
Stripped of all but its veiny skeleton, the circulatory network of a spinach leaf successfully served as an edible substrate upon which the researchers grew bovine animal protein, said Boston College Professor of Engineering Glenn Gaudette, the lead author of the new study.
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