Lab-Grown Burger Coming Soon?

The first lab-grown hamburger is coming as soon as next August or September for about €250,000 ($337,825), reports Reuters. "The first one will be a proof of concept, just to show it's possible," says Mark Post, vascular biologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. The lab-grown burger will be made of thousands of muscle-like strips—each measuring about 2.5 by 1 centimeter with a nearly see-through thickness—stacked with strips of lab-grown fat. Post grows the muscle strips from the stem cells of leftover animal material from slaughterhouses, giving them nutrients and exercising them by stretching them "between Velcro tabs in the Petri dish to provide resistance and help them build up strength."

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2 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, November 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM
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'Nano Burgers with Lettuce' Micrograph Contest Winner

Micrograph taken by Jordi Liobet and Laura Barrachina This micorgraph titled "Nano Burgers with Lettuce" won first place at the 34th International Conference on Micro and Nano Engineering. The description reads: "These vertical test structures, built with 3 metal...

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1 Comment | Posted by Robyn Lee, October 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM
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The Tiniest Hamburgers

To answer the burning question of what the constituent components of a burger look like magnified, Michael Davidson of Florida State University put up a web page detailing microscopic views of onion cells, cooked beef cells (above), a wheat...

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2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
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