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Lab meat is a technology that has more funding and institutional backers and in my opinion, if a breakthrough occurs, it'll be in that domain first. And by the
by DantesKite 5y ago
Lab meat is a technology that has more funding and institutional backers and in my opinion, if a breakthrough occurs, it'll be in that domain first.
And by the looks of it, we're still a few years away from the real deal.
- throwaway5752 5y agoThis is basically spongey glue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel) not really synthetic tissue. They're porous to provide a matrix or scaffold for cells to grow in, but this one is resilient enough to hold up in areas of high repeated mechanical stress. I wouldn't think lab meat would be an analog because it would lack the desired mechanical properties. Maybe if lab meat growers were were able to quickly breed a person's own induced pluripotent stem cells and seed the hydrogel with them?