Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have engineered a new way of growing synthetic meat by zapping animal cells with a magnet.
by the institution published on Monday. The novel technique will reduce reliance on animal products while also being greener, cleaner, safer, and more cost-effective.Today’s method of producing lab-grown meat involves using other animal products, which largely defeats the purpose. Current cell-based meat production methods require that animal cells are fed animal serum to help them grow and proliferate.
Other methods to promote cell growth are through the use of drugs or genetic engineering, which are equally complicated and possibly unhealthy. These complexities increase the cost of lab-grown meat alternatives and limit the manufacturing scale, interfering with the commercial viability of cell-based meat.
To overcome this challenge, a multidisciplinary research team led by Associate Professor Alfredo Franco-Obregón, who is from the NUS Institute for Health Innovation & Technology and the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, conceived of an unconventional method of using magnetic pulses to stimulate the growth of cell-based meat, thus culturing myogenic stem cells, which are found in skeletal muscle and bone marrow tissue.
The invention can also be used for applications in regenerative medicine. The team of researchers used the secreted proteins to treat unhealthy cells with promising outcomes. They found that these proteins helped to accelerate the recovery and growth of unhealthy cells, indicating the new technique’s potential in helping to cure injured cells and speed up a patient's recovery.and the researchers are also seeking to commercialize it.
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