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Cellular agriculture could be a game-changer or just another spot on the supermarket shelves

Nature Food volume 3, pages 782–784 (2022)Cite this article

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Laboratories around the world are racing to create the perfect piece of meat. But, questions remain about how cellular agriculture can help with the world’s growing agricultural challenges.

Cellular agriculture is a nascent field, where scientists generate animal or plant agricultural products through lab-based cell culture. From the animal side of things, the basic idea is to generate food products such as beef, chicken or lamb, without the involvement of traditional animal husbandry. Today, a myriad of companies are racing to produce the best cultivated meat products, including beef burgers, foie gras and chicken nuggets, among many others.

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Gruber, K. Cellular agriculture could be a game-changer or just another spot on the supermarket shelves. Nat Food 3, 782–784 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00610-y

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