{"id":661866,"date":"2013-08-06T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=80661"},"modified":"2013-08-06T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T18:16:14","slug":"meet-the-new-meat-a-tedx-talk-on-the-first-lab-grown-hamburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661866","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new meat: A TEDx talk on the first lab-grown hamburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZExbQ8dkJvc?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;%23038;fs=1&amp;%23038;showsearch=0&amp;%23038;showinfo=1&amp;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&amp;%23038;wmode=transparent\" height=\"360\" width=\"586\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the first lab-grown hamburger was cooked. And eaten!\u00a0And according to <em>The Week<\/em>, it didn\u2019t taste too bad.\u00a0This lab-grown patty took two years\u00a0and $325,000\u00a0to produce. And as sources revealed, the money came from Google co-founder\u00a0and\u00a0TED speaker Sergey Brin. (Watch his talk on Google Glass, or his talk with Larry Page on the genesis of Google.)<\/p>\n<p>But the TED connection doesn\u2019t end there. The burger is a product of\u00a0Cultured Beef, a project born at\u00a0Maastricht University\u00a0in The Netherlands and headed by Mark Post, a specialist in tissue engineering. \u00a0At\u00a0TEDxHaarlem, Post gave a talk called\u00a0<strong>\u201cMeet the new meat,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0during which he introduced Cultured Beef to the world and explained the process behind its growth. He also discussed the future he envisions for in-vitro meat.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an excerpt from his talk, featured above:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis hamburger contains 60 billion cells. Now, that\u2019s a lot. You need to culture a lot of cells. You need to somehow find a way to do that efficiently because, remember, we have to be more efficient than the cow or the pig\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It has to be efficient and it has to also be meat. Not some kind of substitute. We have more than enough substitutes from vegetable proteins. It needs really to be meat. Nothing less, nothing more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It takes about 7-8 weeks to grow a muscle fiber, and so, also 7-8 weeks to grow a hamburger. You could do it at home if you like \u2026 If you have the right materials, it\u2019s very, very easy to do. And in fact [the] stem cells \u2026 they survive freeze-drying, so you could envision that over the Internet we would eventually sell little, sort of, tea bags of stem cells \u2014 from tuna, from tiger, from cows, from pigs, from whatever animal you could imagine. Then, in the comfort of your own kitchen, you could grow your own tissue. You\u00a0<em>would\u00a0<\/em>have to know what you want to eat 8 weeks in advance \u2014 because it takes a while.\u201d<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more about Cultured Beef,\u00a0watch Professor Post\u2019s TEDx talk, or take a look at the\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post originally ran on the TEDx Blog. Read more there \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the first lab-grown hamburger was cooked. And eaten!\u00a0And according to The Week, it didn\u2019t taste too bad.\u00a0This lab-grown patty took two years\u00a0and $325,000\u00a0to produce. And as sources revealed, the money came from Google co-founder\u00a0and\u00a0TED speaker Sergey Brin. (Watch his talk on Google Glass, or his talk with Larry Page on the genesis of Google.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}