| | Hello Paige,
Have you ever seen The InVitro Meat Cookbook?
 A page from the In Vitro Meat Cookbook, by NextNature. An excellent blog post by Ben Wurgaft on this work of design fiction can be found here.
It’s an incredible work of design fiction by the Dutch arts collective NextNature. I love this book because it explores creative ways that cultured meat might manifest through technology.
I was reminded of this book thanks to a recent project we’ve supported through the cellular agriculture Science Engine, a partnership between Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition, Experiment.com, and New Harvest. |
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🌱Can we produce plant protein fibers to emulate whole cut cultured meat?
Brigid Barrick, John Yuen, and David L Kaplan
Tufts University Whole cut meat constitutes a large portion of the meat market, but it is hard to create their dense marbled structure in cultured meat. Textile bioengineering techniques can be applied to weave muscle cells and protein fibers into whole cuts of meat, however current methods use animal materials and expensive equipment. This project explores the application of thermally drawn protein fibers using plant-derived materials for low cost, animal free, “meat knitting”. |
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If you would like to send thoughts, insights, or words of encouragement to the lead researcher, Brigid Barrick, she can be contacted through the project’s discussion page.
Woven meat sounds pretty intriguing to me. Would love to see more tech-driven explorations of what cultured meat can be. Burgers are the baseline, right?
Until next time, |
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