Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailTextured meat made from cow muscle cells has been created in a lab, in an advance that could bring us closer to shutting our abattoirs. Scientists stumbled over the development when growing human muscle tissue for grafting with no intention of adapting the technique to fast food. The scientists used a scaffolding made out of soy protein to train bovine cells to develop into a three-dimensional structure similar to meat. It is possible to culture real muscle cells, but difficult to do so for mass production. The researchers used similar techniques to before, creating a matrix structure out of soy protein, on which they cultured several muscle types from cows.

Source: Daily Mirror March 31, 2020 18:54 UTC