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Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat. Japanese-led team grow 11g chunk of chicken – and say product could be on market in five- to 10 years.
Japanese-led team grow 11g chunk of chicken – and say product could be on market in five- to 10 years
Researchers are claiming a breakthrough in lab-grown meat after producing nugget-sized chunks of chicken in a device that mimics the blood vessels that make up the circulatory system. The approach uses fine hollow fibres to deliver oxygen and nutrients to chicken muscle cells suspended in a gel, an advance that allowed scientists to grow lumps of meat up to 2cm long and 1cm thick. To solve the size problem, Prof Shoji Takeuchi, at the University of Tokyo, built a bioreactor that holds living cells in a gel and feeds them with oxygen and nutrients through fine, semi-permeable fibres that pass through the material.
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