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Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat – EurekAlert
Cost-efficient and environmentally friendly, a spinach leaf proves to be an edible platform upon which to grow cultured meat cells, a team of researchers led by…

IMAGE: This diagram shows the steps Boston College and WPI researchers took to isolate and seed primary bovine satellite cells on a decellularized spinach leaf scaffold.
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Credit: Food Bioscience
Chestnut Hill, Mass. (3/31/21) — Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance that may accelerate the development of cultured meat, according to a…
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