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An Israeli startup appears to have achieved a landmark accomplishment in the fake meat industry: lab-grown steak.<\/p>
On Wednesday, Aleph Farms announced<\/a> that it had grown a steak in a lab using cells extracted from a living cow. In a video<\/a> shared alongside the announcement, a chef cooks up what looks<\/em> like a regular beef steak, albeit one on the smaller side.<\/p> “The initial products are still relatively thin,” Aleph Farms CEO Didier Toubia acknowledges in a press release, “but the technology we developed marks a true breakthrough and a great leap forward in producing a cell-grown steak.”<\/p> It’s been five years since the public reveal of the first lab-grown hamburger<\/a>. Since then, researchers have been able to dramatically improve upon the process of growing meat<\/a>. What they haven’t been able to do is replicate the texture and structure of the specific cuts you’d find at a butcher.<\/p> “Making a patty or a sausage from cells cultured outside the animal is challenging enough,” Toubia said. “Imagine how difficult it is to create a whole-muscle steak.”<\/p> But that’s what Aleph Farms has seemingly done.<\/p> The key was finding a nutrient combination that would encourage the extracted animal cells to grow into a tissue structure comparable to that found in an actual cow. The company managed this using a bio-engineering platform co-developed with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.<\/p> In an interview<\/a> published by Business Insider<\/em> on Wednesday, Toubia revealed that a steak like the one highlighted in Aleph Farms’s video takes two to three weeks to grow and costs about $50.<\/p> He also answered the question no doubt on the mind of anyone who watched the video of his company’s lab-grown steak sizzling in a skillet: whether it tastes good.<\/p> “The smell was great when we cooked it, exactly the same characteristic flavor as a conventional meat cut,” Toubia said. “It was a little bit chewy, same as meat. We saw and felt the fibers when we cut it with a knife.”<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> An Israeli Startup With Ties to America’s Most Popular Hummus Brand Says It Made the World’s First Lab-Grown Steak — a Holy Grail for the Industry<\/a> [Business Insider<\/em>]<\/p> More on lab-grown meat: We’re About to Get Many More Meat Alternatives<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> The post For the First Time, a Startup Grew a Steak in a Lab<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Continue reading here: High Steaks An Israeli startup appears to have achieved a landmark accomplishment\u00a0in the\u00a0fake meat industry: lab-grown steak. On Wednesday, Aleph Farms announced \u00a0that it had grown a steak in a lab using cells\u00a0extracted from a living cow. Continue reading Fresh Meat<\/h2>
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