SYNTHETIC MEAT

SYNTHETIC MEAT

Subject : Science & tech

Context : Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has stirred the internet once again, this time with his comment on synthetic meat.

Concept :

• Cultured meat or Synthetic meat is a meat produced by in vitro cell culture of animal cells, instead of from slaughtered animals It is a form of cellular agriculture.
• Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.
• The concept of cultured meat was popularized by Jason Matheny in the early 2000s after co-authoring a seminal paper on cultured meat production and creating New Harvest, the world’s first nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting in vitro meat research.

Cellular Agriculture

• Cellular agriculture focuses on the production of agriculture products from cell cultures using a combination of biotechnology, tissue engineering, molecular biology, and synthetic biology to create and design new methods of producing proteins, fats, and tissues that would otherwise come from traditional agriculture.