futurescope:The $325,000 in-vitro burger now costs less than $12 + lab-grown chicken is nextThe firs
futurescope:The $325,000 in-vitro burger now costs less than $12 + lab-grown chicken is nextThe first lab-grown hamburger was cultivated in 2013 by Mark Post from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Now that price has dropped to just over $11 for a burger ($80/kg), according to an ABC News interview with Post. Unfortunately he also said that we have to wait another 20 to 30 years before it’s commercially viable.You don’t like red meat? Well, there is hope. Bioengineers in Israel are working on the world’s first lab-grown chicken. Professor Amit Gefen started a feasibility study funded by a non-profit group called Modern Agriculture Foundation. But the task is much more complex compared to the beef burger, because Gefen aims to grow chicken meat from a single cell.[read more about the price drop] [via fast.co] [more about the chicken] [picture by Christian Kadluba // CC BY-SA 2.0] -- source link
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