The race for the future of protein is heating up. On one side, lab-grown meat promises real meat without slaughtering animals ...

Billions of animals are killed each year to feed an unsustainable demand for meat. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean meat—can offer a kinder alternative while ...

Lab-grown meat tackles environmental and ethical challenges. Challenges include high production costs and public perception. Taste is mixed; cultural norms impact acceptance of lab-made meat. Unless ...

Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab is tackling the big challenge with synthetic meat - making it taste like the real thing. About a third of global greenhouse gas emissions come from our food ...

In what’s been called a world first, consumers in the UK are now able to buy a pet treat made with lab-grown meat. The treat contains plant-based ingredients and 4% chicken meat cultivated in a lab by ...

A hamburger made with cultivated meat, served at a 2013 tasting in London. (Courtesy of Mosa Meat) A committee of South Dakota legislators advanced a bill Tuesday at the Capitol in Pierre that would ...

A new study tests whether spent yeast from breweries can supply cellulose scaffolds that support lab-grown meat production.