| | Hello Paige,
It’s me again! Here to share a circular economy project that we’ve supported through the cellular agriculture Science Engine, a partnership between Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition, Experiment.com, and New Harvest.
This project is related to everyone’s favorite topic - serum-free media. But with a twist! It’s no joke that the materials used for cell and tissue culture are incredibly expensive, and that bringing down the cost of media will be instrumental to the success of cultured meat.
What I love about this project is the exploration of agricultural waste as a source of peptides and growth factors that could promote muscle cell and tissue growth in culture. |
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🗑How can low cost agriculture waste material can be used to support lab-grown meat production?
Hannah Chang and John Yuen
Tufts University
If cultured meat is to be produced sustainably, it cannot rely on serum or other animal-derived substances. This project will recycle materials from agricultural waste to contribute to the development of genuine animal-free alternatives.
The central aim of this project is to develop a new process to extract the peptides from agricultural waste and identify growth factors that promote muscle tissue culture. It will be key to ensure that the peptides are extracted from zero or very low cost agricultural wastes (collected from land, marine or other sources), and used to grow muscle cells in culture |
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This is exactly the type of innovative thinking we need to see more of in the field. If cellular agriculture isn’t striving towards a circular economy, is it even transformative?
If you would like to send thoughts, insights, or words of encouragement to the lead researcher, Hannah Chang, she can be reached at hannah...@ab.uni-giessen.de
Have an awesome week and speak soon, |
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