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SoylentRox t1_itamd8q wrote

Reply to comment by Ezekiel_W in 3D meat printing is coming by Shelfrock77

Probably is a distance away at scale but this is one of the first demos I have seen where it's even possible.
The trick here seems to be rather than try to grow a whole steak, where you have to trick biology into getting the signals it got in a cow embryo, you grow the muscle and fat separately in separate vats. And any other components.

Then turn the grown cells into something with the right consistency and adhesiveness to print, I am not sure how they do that.

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ConnorGoFuckYourself t1_itbd9qf wrote

In theory if it's the same cells/physical mass as normal meat, you may be able to use meat glue to adhere it to itself. It's used for things like imitation crab and chicken nuggets.

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SoylentRox t1_itcyamu wrote

Sounds less and less appetizing lol (meat glue: for fake crab and gluing pink slime together!) but yeah it'll work. Plus less cruel than killing animals.

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