Scientists in Japan create lab-grown chicken nugget in 'breakthrough'

Scientists in Japan create lab-grown chicken nugget in 'breakthrough'

The research paves the way for whole cuts of meat to be grown in a lab and other applications such as regenerative medicine.

Breakthrough in Fake Meat Production

Researchers in Japan have produced nugget-sized chunks of chicken using animal cells, signaling a breakthrough in lab-grown food production. Lab-grown or cell-cultivated meat has been around for over a decade, offering an animal-based protein option that does not derive from slaughtered animals. Previous attempts at lab-grown chicken have been made with cells taken from living animals to create chicken strips less an inch thick that are then bou…

Researchers Say Lab-Grown Chicken Nuggets Are ‘Transformative Step’ for Cultivated Meat

Researchers have made what they say is a breakthrough in cultivated meat after they successfully produced nugget-sized pieces of chicken in a lab. A bioreactor with the ability to mimic blood vessels like those in a natural circulatory system can deliver oxygen and nutrients to artificial tissue. This enables the production of more than 10 grams of chicken to be used in cultured meat applications. “Our study presents a scalable, top-down strateg…

Researchers at the University of Tokyo, led by engineer Shoji Takeuchi, were able to create a piece of laboratory chicken 7 centimeters long and 11 grams. This advance, published in the journals Trends in Biotechnology and Nature, represents a significant step in the search for sustainable alternatives for meat production. The development of this technology aims to address critical challenges, such as hunger in regions with meat scarcity, in add…

Japanese researchers have grown a piece of artificial chicken measuring 7 cm wide and 2 cm thick. The bioreactor used mimicked a human circulatory system to deliver oxygen and nutrients. The hollow fibers distributed nutrients through the tissue, keeping the cells alive and active. Currently, cultured meat is only legally sold in Singapore, the US and Israel. Scientists have grown a piece of chicken the size of a nugget using a new method that c…

This stage is considered 'transformative' for cultured meat and the product may be on the market in 5 to 10 years. Researchers at the University of Tokyo, in Japan, have produced chicken pieces the size of nuggets. The approach, published in the scientific journal Trends in Biotechnology, uses fine hollow fibers to provide oxygen and nutrients to chicken muscle cells suspended in a gel, an advance that allowed the cultivation of pieces of meat u…