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angiogenesis

Scientists Grow "Ball of Human Blood Vessels" in Mice

It's the next step on the path to robust tissue engineering and synthetic meat. Researchers today announced that they'd used special progenitor cells to grow human blood vessels inside mice. The vessels grew after scientists injected the cells into the mice, forming a "ball" of self-assembled veins that connected to each other and pumped blood. More »

4:26 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Annalee Newitz
858 views, 7 comments

Latest by Klappstuhl: @burningfistprime: You won't say that again after you had to "relieve" yourself in one of those things... more »

future food

X-Prize Hits the Meatpacking Industry

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are putting their money where their mouths are with a million dollar contest to see who can grow edible, tasty chicken nugget meat in a lab by 2012. The prospect of lab-grown meat has a lot of promise, but has been around for years without much progress, probably because of a lack of funding. With the prize money on the table, PETA hopes to do for in vitro meat what the Ansari X-Prize did for commercial spaceflight. It's a terrific idea, but one wonders if they've thought this through well — part of the process involves 10 PETA judges tasting experimental, lab-grown chicken nuggets that may not be ready for prime time yet. Image: Flickr

9:30 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Michael Reilly
617 views, 35 comments

Latest by MickyK: This is just stupid. It's going to take alot of money to produce these fake products. What happens when people don't have enough dough to support their vegetarian lifestyle? Back to the natural stuff... Plus since this artificial food has what I more »

tissue engineering

Vat-Grown Meat About to Hit Your Local Market

In five years, you'll be eating a hamburger that no animal died for. Instead, that burger will have been grown from a tiny sample of cells in a plant-and-mushroom bath. The cow who donated the cells will be frolicking in a meadow somewhere, having long forgotten the annoying poke from a tissue engineer with a syringe. At a meeting in Norway of the In Vitro Meat Consortium late last week, scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to discuss the future of "cultured meat," or meat that's essentially grown like cultures in a lab (pictured here). This meeting, the first of its kind, signaled the beginning of a viable industry around the production of vat-grown meat. More »

7:00 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,407 views, 73 comments

Latest by n/a: Fools, we at KFC have mastered the technique for some decades now. more »

ask a biogeek

Forget the Jetpack - Where Are My Replacement Organs?

Welcome to Ask a Biogeek, a column about cutting-edge biology by UC Berkeley researcher Terry Johnson. Knowing which organs you can live without is all well and good, but wouldn't you rather have replacement organs? Tissue engineers already have some pretty good ones if you happen to lose your skin or severely damage your bones. And there are some other organs we're cooking up for you too, as long as you can hold out for a few more years. More »

Feature

9:45 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Terry Johnson
1,979 views, 14 comments

Latest by Terry Johnson: Garrison: They are working on tissue engineered pancreas which are basically little sacks of insulin-producing cells. While getting cells to make insulin isn't terribly difficult, modulating the production according to blood sugar levels isn't easy. Bloggy: I wholeheartedly sympathize. Liver's a more »