Start-up creates technology to grow in laboratory meat – ZAP

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it’s “real meat” who “knows and looks even flesh,” but “without killing animals.” This is how a start-up Israeli claims to have discovered how to cultivate laboratory meat without having to hurt animals.

SuperMeat company created by renowned biomedical engineer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yaakov Nahmias, is trying to raise funds to be able to start turning chickens tissue samples, pigs or cows meat grown in a laboratory.

the idea seems crazy, but this start-up guarantees have come to the perfect formula for this purpose thanks to a technology that “allows expand isolated cells of a small tissue taken in a biopsy without hurting the animal, “explained Nahmias in a video posted on YouTube.

The company has managed to raise in a fundraising campaign on the site crowdfunding Indiegogo, more than 100 000 dollars , about 90 thousand euros, and now expects to reach the mark of 500,000 (up 450 thousand euros), all to be able to create the first machine to grow meat.

the aim is that in January 2018, the first prototype is fully operational. And after that, you can put “making machines meat” in supermarkets or restaurants and even in people’s homes, declare those responsible for this start-up .

the technology that will have this “cultured meat” or “meat in vitro ” uses “refined tissue engineering techniques of regenerative medicine”, can be read in Indiegogo.

the process begins with the removal of a small tissue of the animal.

“We organized these cells into tiny tissues and put them in a unique environment designed to perfectly mimic the physiology , allowing these small grow tissues organically for large muscles, essentially as in nature, “explains the professor.

” the cells are enriched with nutrients that help them thrive and to share, growing to a piece of animal meat ready to eat, “he adds.

the project has the potential to be able to come to revolutionize the meat industry, presenting as great argument for its importance, and not cause animal suffering, the fact that help protect the environment because it does not use resources such as land and water and does not release harmful gases into the atmosphere.

in addition, the start-up claims it can help solve the problem of hunger in the world and that cultured meat is healthy than conventional meat because you can “oversee production” .

it is also “ cheaper “, there is, because food and create millions of animals out much more expensive.

a similar technique this had also been developed by company researchers Memphis Meats .

as Yaakov Nahmias, the leaders of this technology believe that it is “a kind of safer meat, healthy and sustainable “.

SV, ZAP