In The U.s., Trying to Get The Meat “Test-tube

Vladimir Mironov, a member of the Medical University of Southern California, has already learned to grow thin skeletal muscle tissue from myoblasts turkey immersed in bovine serum on a skeleton of chitosan.

Biotechnologist Vladimir Mironov, who works at the Medical University of Southern California (USA), for ten years trying to grow in the lab … the meat. He takes myoblasts (embryonic cells that develop into muscle tissue) of turkey and immerses them in a nutrient serum of cattle on a skeleton of chitosan, which results in thin skeletal muscle tissue.

However, the meat will be fully obtained only after the investigator learned how to grow fat on it and the vascular system.

56-year-old scientist believes that the meat “of the tubes will help mankind cope with the upcoming global food crisis. In an interview with Reuters, Mr. Mironov said that work on the cultivation of meat are in full swing in the Netherlands but not in the United States, where biotechnologists have to seek sponsors who will fund such research. Neither the new National Institute for Food and Agriculture nor the National Institutes of Health did not want to give money to these experiments, and only NASA selects small tools.

According to Mr. Mironov, a classic example of disruptive technology (new technology, which at the time of its appearance is less profitable than the dominant, but the systematic development is gradually replacing them entirely, becoming a principal). Its implementation costs an average of one billion dollars, but the American biotechnology is not even a million.

However, Vladimir Mironov hoped that the difficulties can be overcome, and in the near future there will appear the whole farm on the cultivation of meat – a huge building the size of a football field, which will accommodate large bioreactors. Perhaps the meat “of the tubes will be produced even in supermarkets, which will acquire a mini-bioreactors, not more conventional machines for making and selling coffee. The scientist believes that for the cultivation of such meat does not need to carry out genetic manipulation, although today, he said, there is no evidence that genetically modified food is worse than the kind of quality.