Scientists successfully transplant lab-grown lungs into pigs

Lab-grown organ transplants aren’t right around the corner, but they may considerably closer than you think. University of Texas Medical Branch researchers have successfully tested bioengineered lungs in adult pigs, with no signs of medical complications. While it’s not certain how effective the lungs were at oxygenating the pigs, they developed the sturdy network of […]

The battle between the beef industry and Silicon Valley’s lab-grown meat startups is heating up

Flickr / Marc Dalmulder In February, the US Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) filed a petition to the USDA arguing that lab-grown meat startups should not be able to call their products “meat,” since they do not come from slaughtered animals. But this week, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) asked the USDA to regulate the startups as […]

One of the world’s biggest meat companies just invested in a Bill Gates-backed startup that makes lab-grown meat

Memphis Meats/Facebook Tyson Foods announced on Monday that it has invested in Memphis Meats, a startup that makes cultured meat. Past investors have included Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and the food and agricultural giant Cargill. Proponents of plant-based and lab-grown meat say that they are environmentally -friendly alternatives to traditional meat. The meatless protein industry […]

One-third of Americans are willing to eat lab-grown meat regularly

Are we on the cusp of the consumer biotech age, when lab-grown meat will be just as common as farmed meat? Recently, a company called Memphis Meats started selling in-vitro meat (IVM) that apparently tastes just like delicious chicken and duck. But if we want the price on an IVM burger to get below $ 1,000, […]

Beyond beef: biotech food startup Memphis Meats just unveiled lab-grown chicken

Last year, it was the “world’s first clean meatball” that helped Memphis Meats grab headlines in February. In November, the startup launched an Indiegogo campaign with plans to grow cultured poultry meat in the lab. Today, the company announced that it has successfully served chicken and duck meat without having raised or slaughtered a bird. “It […]

A San Francisco startup just created the world’s first lab-grown chicken

Memphis Meats San Francisco-based startup Memphis Meats says it has made the world’s first lab-grown chicken strips from animal cells. On March 14, Memphis Meats invited a handful of taste-testers to their kitchen to try it. And according to the company, they said it tastes just like chicken. “It is thrilling to introduce the first chicken […]