- Virginia Tech researchers are working on a new means of getting seafood to your table: from a lab.
- “Overall we are trying to produce meat without killing animals,” said Reza Ovissipour, a food science assistant professor and lead of the university’s Future Foods Lab and Cellular Agriculture Initiative. “Because of many issues that we have, we need to find other alternative ways to produce meat. This is another way.”
- His team was one of six institutions recently awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture marking the agency’s first investment in the lab-grown meat field. Together, the consortium also plans to create a National Institute for Cellular Agriculture.
‘It’s not science fiction’: New East Bay facility producing lab-grown meat plans to produce 400,000 pounds per year
A massive facility designed to produce hundreds of thousands of pounds of cultured meat is set to open Thursday in Emeryville — a significant step forward in a nascent yet rapidly growing...
