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Mike

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Scientist seeks burger investors

CHARLESTON, S.C., July 13 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist has developed a process to grow cow cells into full-size hamburger overnight but he can't get anyone to invest in the process.

Vladimir Mironov, a biology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina, said the process involves taking immature cells that develop into skeletal muscles from cows -- or pigs, or chickens, or turkeys -- and fusing them to a protein that, with the help of steroids, grows into big hunks of meat, The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier reported.

The newspaper said the process isn't exactly cloning, but more like cattle farming through chemistry.

The scientific procedure has been published in tissue-engineering journals, but Mironov says he can't find any financial backers, Post and Courier says.

"In business, who pays to make a product nobody wants to buy?" Mironov asked. "You show this technology and say, 'Do you want to try the meat?' and they all say, 'No.'"

But Mironov says the long-term benefits of the technology could outweigh the negative public perception.

He told the newspaper: "It's not Frankenstein meat. It's like hydroponic tomatoes."
 

IL Rancher

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Considering how nasty tasting the hydroponic tomatoes I have had where (Probably more to do with picking before ripe than being hydroponic_ I can't imagine what that would taste like... And I won't, and I wouldn't eat it either.

And it does sound like Franken meat to me...
 

Econ101

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Watch out, the NCBA may not approve of labeling it properly so we know its not real if Tyson buys the rights. :shock: :shock:
 

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