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Though it sounds a lot like Frankenfood, scientists note that in vitro tissue engineering is not the same as genetic engineering, a common misconception. "We use natural cells from natural animals," says Dr. Vladimir Mironov, a tissue engineer and assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. "We don't change Mother Nature, we just try to imitate it." But there's always room for improvement - scientists can design meat, for example, that is high in healthy fats, such as omega 3s and 6s. Creating the meat in a lab also decreases its exposure to bacteria and disease, which...
...technology to produce in vitro meat is almost in place, says Mironov, but "there are bottlenecks" in the process - namely scale and cost. Given the current technology, it would cost $1 million to turn out a 250g piece of beef. The problem boils down to producing a cell-culture medium in large enough quantities at a low enough price (it's the same problem facing tissue engineers who are attempting to grow artificial organs for human transplant). So, two weeks ago, an international group of experts assembled in Norway for the first In Vitro Meat Consortium symposium to talk about...
Until this month, the Russian presidential campaign was an occasionally amusing but tightly scripted show. Comic relief was provided by independent candidate Sergei Mironov, who repeatedly stressed his support for the incumbent, President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the Kremlin-dominated media gave Putin blanket - and predictably positive - coverage. Then the script took a sinister turn: first, a suicide bomber killed over 40 people in the Moscow metro; Putin blamed Chechen separatists. Immediately after, it emerged that Ivan Rybkin, an opposition presidential candidate who, like most Putin challengers, is polling in the single digits, had disappeared. Just the week before, Rybkin...
...complainants from Chechnya." The Russian government argued the case should not be heard in Strasbourg since there were still domestic remedies to be explored. But the Court said this assertion was so closely linked to the merits of the cases that it, too, should be considered. Sergei Mironov, head of the Federation Council, the upper house of the federal parliament, said appeals by Chechens to the European Court would not reflect badly on Russia's image, adding: "Any citizen has the right to defend himself this way." Long a thorn in Russia's side, Chechnya declared independence...