Scientists have found a way to cut the cost of producing meat from cell culture using a 3D printer. Reported by Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
In recent years, scientists have been looking for a way to grow meat without using animals. First, it will allow vegetarians to eat meat, and secondly, it will reduce the burden on the environment, according to environmentalists. However, until now, the price of artificial meat is so high that mass production for consumers is not even tried.
Now, researchers in Singapore and China have found a way to make meat 3D printer ink using food waste to keep the cost down. Meat is created from stem cells planted on a substrate, and meat has no structure without a substrate. The authors of the study created an ink to create a substrate based on food waste, namely cereal husk. The new ink is completely soluble in meat product and cheap to produce, so it can greatly reduce the cost of large-scale meat farming.
“We optimized a plant-based 3D printing ink to print scaffolds to house muscle stem cells. The cells can then grow with the scaffold structure and everything is dyed with beetroot dye to look like natural flesh,” the scientists explain.
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