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Researchers create appliance to grow food from plant cells
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. are working to develop an appliance for the home kitchen that can grow food within a week from plant cells. The first prototype machine or bioreactor—called CellPod—resembles a design lamp and is already producing harvests.

The idea of the CellPod concept is based on growing the undifferentiated cells of a plant rather than a whole plant. In other words, only th…