Cellular agriculture of alternative protein sources
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The environmental and ethical implications of traditional livestock rearing, combined with an increasing global population and demand for protein-rich nutrition, has led to large investments in alternative protein research. One emerging approach is cellular agriculture, in which traditional ‘meat’ tissues, such as muscle and fat cells from cows, chicken and fish; or alternative protein sources, such as algae, are cultivated en-masse under controlled laboratory conditions. However, the optimisation of these protocols is highly species-and cell type-dependent, and further development is required to make cellular agriculture an economically viable alternative to traditional sources of protein.
This Collection welcomes primary research focussing on improvements to cellular agriculture protocols including media optimisation, scaffold engineering and bioreactor conditions to maximize sustainable protein production.
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 12.
Editors
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Anil Kumar Anal
Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioresources, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
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Chunbao Li
Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu, China
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Gaurav Rajauria
Senior Lecturer – Sustainable Food Fermentation, SUSFERM - Centre for Sustainable Fermentation and Bioprocessing Systems for Food and the Bioeconomy, University College Cork, Ireland
