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I recall another article on the subject that said lab meat needed purified amino acids as food for the culture, and that many amino acids just aren't sold in th
by a_shovel 3y ago
I recall another article on the subject that said lab meat needed purified amino acids as food for the culture, and that many amino acids just aren't sold in the necessary quantities. A cow, on the other hand, needs only grass because it has extensive equipment to generate those amino acids from grass, called a digestive system.
- akiselev 3y agoThe amino acids are generally supplied as - I kid you not - fetal bovine serum.
- AstralStorm 3y agoThere are ways to produce them by breaking down soy protein or pea protein (plain old acid hydrolysis, perhaps microwave enhanced - plus filtration; less cleanly enzymatically too), but it's another expensive step... And then you need to scale this process up.