Hold on to your stomach, it's time for a lab-grown burger

Hold on to your stomach, it's time for a lab-grown burger - Yahoo! News:

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Meat products grown in labs, or in vitro meat, has taken a considerable step closer to becoming reality this week, after the University of Maastricht’s Dr. Mark Post revealed pictures of a 2cm long piece of muscle that will eventually become edible meat. He announced his experiment in November last year, although the project has been running for six years.

Engineered from bovine stem cells, the initially white muscle is fed with a nutrient rich concoction, then exercised to help it grow and keep it lean, before being mixed with “blood and artificially grown fat” and arranged in layers to form a steak.

Unsurprisingly, given the amount of care and attention this little muscle needs, it’s a pricey experiment, with the final cost nudging $318,000 or £200,000. That’s an expensive burger.