Test-Tube Meat, High-Throughput Taste Evaluation

Serving up test-tube meat
Meat grown in a lab may not be on dinner tables anytime soon, but a recent media event in London does demonstrate the feasibility of creating a hamburger from beef stem cells.

At the event, Professor Mark Post at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands unveiled the lab-grown hamburger to dozens of media representatives to call attention to sustainable food production and to drum up financial support for additional research on in vitro or cultured meat. The 140-g…