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Dr Russ Tucker, 36, co-founder of Ivy, came from a family of butchers and told The Times his parents were not pleased when he suggested they eat a vegetarian meal once a week.
He said: I was lucky not to be kicked out of the house.
Dr Tucker, nicknamed the hog father , added he wanted to follow his father and grandfather into the meat trade, albeit with a culture dish and not a cleaver .
The technique for growing meat in a lab was developed by Oxford University s Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
How are lab-grown sausages made?
The lab-grown sausages are made in three steps:
gaitQ Provides Business Update
Support received from Parkinson s UK
Progress in user recruitment for clinical study
Oxford, UK, 9 February 2021 - gaitQ, a spin-out from the University of Oxford which is developing a wearable, smart medical device that helps those with Parkinson s overcome gait freezing episodes, is pleased to announce a business update on its recent and ongoing activities since launching in March 2020.
Funding
Since its inception in 2020, the company has made significant progress towards the development of the gaitQ system after attracting GBP 625,000 in pre-seed capital from both the University of Oxford Innovation Fund V, managed by Parkwalk Advisors, and via a private investment from Simon Godwin, recently appointed Chairman of gaitQ. Proceeds from the financing are being used to advance the early testing and development of gaitQ s device.