This food startup has grown meat in space for the 1st time:
The company says its production method mimics the natural process of muscle-tissue regeneration occurring inside the cow’s body. In this case, the cells were harvested on Earth, grown in space and assembled into small-scale muscle tissue under micro-gravity conditions thanks to a 3D printer developed by Bioprinting Solutions, a Russian company.
The experiment was about devising the astronauts’ food of the future as much as producing meat regardless to availability of land and local water resources. “In space, we don’t have 10,000 or 15,000 Liter of water available to produce one kilo of beef,” said Didier Toubia, Co-Founder and CEO of Aleph Farms in a press release.to rise 88% between 2010 and 2050, it’s vital to find less resource-intensive ways of producing it.
Cultivated meat, slaughter-free meat produced by in vitro cultivation of animal cells, could represent the solution to this challenge. Aleph Farms is one of several ambitious startups racing to be the first to bring it to the market. Many of these companies are based in Israel, which is sort of the Mecca of cultivated meat. “As a country, Israel has a noteworthy pedigree in science and technology studies, especially in stem cells research.
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