Alien meat grown in space
Israeli startup’s experiment shows meat can be produced in the harshest conditions
07 October 2019 - 16:36
In the world of artificial meats, you cannot get more alien than growing your beef in space.
That is what the Israeli start-up Aleph Farms showed might be possible in an experiment on the International Space Station last week, where it grew small-scale muscle tissue from bovine cells using a Russian 3D bioprinting company...
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