Texas is home to 13 million cattle that are raised on thousands of ranches to feed America’s insatiable appetite for burgers, steaks, and ribs. But no one makes beef quite like Janet Zoldan. As the co-founder and chief science officer of the Austin-based startup BioBQ, Zoldan has spent the past three years on a quest to grow brisket in a lab. It’s a novel idea in the budding industry of “lab-grown” meats and is fraught with technological challenges.
But if Zoldan and her collaborators at BioBQ are successful, their innovative approach to beef production could significantly reduce the environmental impact of cattle ranching while improving animal welfare and boosting human health.
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