Thursday, December 3, 2009

Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory

The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.
They initially extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig. Called myoblasts, these cells are programmed to grow into muscle and repair damage in animals.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece

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