(The Dutch have also focussed on pork stem cells, because pigs are readily available to them, often reclaimed from eggs discarded at slaughterhouses or taken from biopsies).
That fibrous skeleton then becomes a scaffold for growing beef, pork, or chicken cells.
After 40 min of irradiation at 0.5 W/cm, all pork thicknesses had cell viabilities significant to the control (Hyd UCNPs).
This approach has the advantage that the tissue has a functioning system of blood vessels to deliver nutrients, so it should be possible to grow tissue cultures more than a millimetre thick the current limit.Henk Haagsman, a meat scientist at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, is trying to make minced pork from cultured stem cells with the backing of Stegeman, a sausage company.
Despite several attempts, scientists have not been able to culture embryonic stem cells from cattle, pork, or chicken.
They argued over a bag of pork rinds and a missing cell phone and one of the men, Will Moore Traywick (known as "Cowboy," but also answers to "Wyatt Earp"), broke a beer bottle and stabbed the other guy in the neck three times.
"Much of this is garden-variety economic development pork that's hiding behind stem cells," Mr. Brodsky said.
Think growing beef, pork, chicken, fish, and dairy from cells sounds crazy?
And when it comes to issues like pork barrel spending, immigration, and stem cell research, he is.
While no pork (0 mm) resulted in less than 20% cell viability, 6 mm had less than 50% cell viability and 12 mm had ∼70% cell viability.
