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Lab-Grown Meat Climbs to New Heights on Scaffolds of Soy

Someday, such supports could allow meat in the lab to grow from tiny hamburger-nuggets into something more like steak.

By Charles Choi
Apr 7, 2020 8:45 PMApr 7, 2020 8:43 PM
Fake-Steak Aleph Farms
Cultured meat produced by Aleph Farms. (Credit: Courtesy of Aleph Farms)

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(Inside Science) — Growing meat without animals may one day become easier using scaffolds made of soy, a new study finds.

In 1932, Winston Churchill predicted that "we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately." Increasingly, scientists are making this vision a reality by growing meat from cells in labs.

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