Are Frankenfoods in your future?
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Sunday, January 30, 2011
South Carolina Doctor’s laboratory grows test tube “meat.”
South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab
By Harriet McLeod – Sun Jan 30, 10:00 am ET
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., has been working for a decade to grow meat.
A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, 56, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering “cultured” meat.
It’s a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way … on the hoof.
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