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Here's how the process works: scientists biopsy stem or satellite muscle cells from a livestock animal, such as a chicken, cow or pig. The cells are then placed in a nutrient-rich medium where they divide and multiply, and are then attached to a scaffolding structure and put in a bioreactor to grow. In order to achieve the texture of natural muscle, the cells must be physically stretched and flexed, or exercised, regularly. After several weeks, voila, you have a thin layer of muscle tissue that can be harvested and processed into ground beef, chicken or pork, depending...
...Vitro Meat Consortium symposium to talk about how to scale up the technology and sustain it long-term. The group concluded that it will be possible to produce in vitro meat in large quantities in the future, but not without funding to continue research. Scientists estimate that in vitro chicken could be produced for about double the current cost of regular livestock chicken, a price that would fall as the process becomes more efficient. "The consensus was that this is doable," says Omholt...
...Thousands of monkeys sitting at typewriters, who will eventually create a meaningful College alcohol policy. 2. Class of 2012 Z-listers. 3. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers’s collection of baking utensils, Danielle Steele novels, and tampons. 4. Supply of HUDS Red Spiced Chicken for the 2007-8 academic year. 5. An ongoing conference, which the Radcliffe Institute refuses to host, screening nothing but hardcore lesbian pornography. 6. Blondes! Blondes! Blondes! 7. Wrinkled picture of Radcliffe Yard, upon which, in her hours of greatest strain, University President Drew G. Faust often gazes, letting herself occasionally wonder...wonder...
...months ago, the only people who talked about the possibility of a contested Democratic nomination fight extending all the way to the party's convention in August were hopeful pundits, desperate Republicans, and Chicken Little Democrats...
...needs to exhale. This guy has been baseball's best big game hitter the last three seasons. It's April. It's cold. He's coming back from knee surgery. Get out of his way. Give him air. Let Papi be Papi. For once, can we not be the Chicken Little Nervous Nellies of yesteryear? This guy carried us to two World Series championships, the first time that's happened in my lifetime. Guess what? He's human. He's recovering. He'll get his swing back. All will be right in the world. They didn't bury his jersey...