Italy is set to ban lab-grown meat – here’s why it should think again: Scientists recently created a meatball with the flesh of the long-extinct woolly mammoth. The meatball was the product of one of this century’s most promising technological advancements – cellular agriculture. Sometimes called “lab-grown meat”, the process involves growing animal products from …
Lab-grown blood used in transfusion for first time – here are three other ways that making organs could change healthcare: The red blood cells were made by extracting stem cells from a blood sample. Phonlamai Photo/ Shutterstock Human volunteers have received the first-ever transfusion of lab grown red blood cells in a groundbreaking scientific first. …
Lab-grown brain cells can play Pong – so should they have legal rights?: Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock The story could have been straight out of science fiction – scientists have grown human brain cells in a lab, and taught them to play the video game Pong, similar to squash or tennis. But this didn’t happen on the …
Evolution: lab-grown ‘mini brains’ suggest one mutation might have rewired the human mind: The brains of humans are subtly different from those of Neanderthals. Petr Student/Shutterstock How we humans became what we are today is a question that scientists have been trying to answer for a long time. How did we evolve such advanced cognitive …
Is lab-grown meat good news for animals?: Brooke Cagle/Unsplash, FAL The Singapore Food Agency has approved “chicken bites” containing meat made from real chicken cells that were grown outside of a chicken’s body. Alongside similar news from Israel, the Singapore ruling is being hailed as a watershed moment for cultured meat and the broader field …