BBCNEWS Click - Short Edition June 4, 2024 11:39:00
Meat starter kits. this is notjust a pork sausage. this is a cultivated meat pork sausage grown in a lab from pluripotent animal cells. but to understand just what that means, let's go backwards from dinner plate all the way back to cell plate. roslin tech are a company based just outside edinburgh, who are looking to supply starter sells to companies all over the world, who could then grow that into meat on a commercial scale. the cells come from a small biopsy from an animal, which means it doesn't need to be slaughtered, and have then been reprogrammed. so, what is it about the particular l...