Word: omholt
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...ease the burden on the environment from meat production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve human health. In practice, however, the chances of anyone actually winning the prize seem slim. "No one has yet produced [in vitro meat]. No one has succeeded in coming close," says Dr. Stig Omholt, director of Norway's Centre for Integrative Genetics and chair of the In Vitro Meat Consortium, which held its first symposium this month. Still, Omholt says, "it seems possible to develop this technology...
...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...
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