#The First Lab-Grown Hamburger Is Servedsince 2008 Dr. Mark Post has been working on growing edible meat in a laboratory.
Today at an event in London the first in-vitro hamburger has been served. Muscle stem cells were taken from a cow's shoulder in a gentle biopsy
so they wouldn't be flabby. 20000 cells were assembled then into a burger bound with bread crumbs
and egg (but curiously no salt) colored with beet juice and saffron and presented to the public.
Dr. Post a cardiovascular biologist from Maastricht University brought his raw burger out in a petri dish under a cloche.
On a television set chef Richard Mcgeown opining that it looked a little paler than normal cooked it in butter
Austrian food futurist Hanni RÃ Â tzler and Josh Schonwald author of The Taste of Tomorrow.
It is close to meat; it is not that juicy. I missed salt and pepper. More than I expected of the the structure it's not falling apart.
Josh: The texture the mouthfeel has a feel like meat. The absence is the fat. It's a leanness.
But the bite feels like a conventional hamburger. The technology to grow fat cells is still lacking--Schonfeld characterized the texture as like an animal protein cake--but that is the next step for the team.
I think it's a very good start said Dr. Post. This was mostly to prove that we can make it.
The following challenge will be to scale up the process. Dr. Post currently estimates that it will take 10 to 20 years before cultured meat can be mass-produced.
For the last few years the project has been funded by an anonymous benefactor who Dr. Post revealed today is Sergey Brin.
Can you make a steak? In theory. We are currently focusing on minced meat products using shorter fibers
because there is a limitation on the diffusion distance of oxygen and nutrients into the center of the tissue.
Can they use this technology to make burgers from less common animals? Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins
. but if we successfully start growing meat then what do we do with all of our live stock?
obviously there would be no purpose in keeping animals meant for food. will the vegetarians jump on board?
Thats the name brand I'll choose Tasty Invitro Meats or TIM'sbeef chicken or Exotic:
what about human burgerseven if that DID qualify as a hamburger and I don't think it does you couldn't get
Now vegans have no excuse! Haha just kidding but this is an amazing technology I think we can all appreciate.
I can enjoy a nice juicy hamburger without having to kill something for it. I thought of a name:
Grown Meat. which would be analogous to freedom eggs organic foods etc and would signify any real meat that has not been taken from animals but grown).
Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect. The amount of livestock we have now has a large environmental impact.
This could be a viable alternative to supplement our food supply cheers. yea sure say good bye to all those cows why raise em
when you can brew them (i assume cheaper) sooo except for the amish and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement
i supposehi welcome to Petri-Burger! Would you like to try our new Bald eagle petri-nuggets?
Does it have less purines that a regular hamburger (I suffer from chronic gout)? Two issues first doesn't tissue culture require fetal bovine serum
In the right hands of a food processing major it would perhaps contest any naturally-sourced protein in both nutritional values and taste.
Over 40%of our man made greenhouse methane comes from livestock for food. With an exponentially growing population of 8. 3 billion there isn't enough feed in the world to keep that number of cattle pigs
and chicken up to compete with the growing demand. This is certainly good news! We can reduce the number of livestock and stop KILLING helpless animals!!!
I don't want anymore ALTERED FOODS being made we have enough people dying of CANCER & other processed food ailments for a lifetime?
One of them was claiming that a cow uses 28 calories of grass to make a calorie of beef
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
what if this technology catches on and undercuts farm and ranch meat producing tens or hundreds of TONS a day from a single vat and some psycho or terrorist contaminates the vat with the Sheep Scrapie Mad cow disease Kuru or Croitzfeld-Jacobs Disease prion?
and then the unused food value that remains in the blood of the calf after slaughter is available for meat production plus some additionally highly processed nutrients. 2) Amoral
This is a bit of a deal killer for vegans or those morally opposed to killing sentient animals for food.
I see where this can have value if a non-animal growth medium could be developed.
As long as the growth medium production does not require even more productive land to produce the cultured meat than actually running animals on the land.
Even as a vegetarian I realize that animals as a food source leverage land that is not possible to efficiently cultivate.
Bio meat seems like a good enough name. And it's probably what it will end up being called anyway.
For many people the ability to produce lactase--the enzyme that allows the body to break down lactase the sugar in milk--disappears after childhood
Every Dutchman (the original ones not the imported) drinks milk with their lunch. Hey we're the tallest people in the world.
and eating cheese e
#U s. Forest Service Solves Mystery Of Exploding Baseball Batsmaple is the unofficial wood of baseball.
and the MLB wants to make sure every batter stepping up to the plate isn't wielding a ticking wooden time bomb
However unless it can come down in price to match a good old fashioned ruler I doubt most teachers will spring for it.
and feels exaggerated like the tortoise and the hare but plays on people's positive conceptions of space exploration:
and his results are promising he hopes to apply the technique to other problems such as personal health food production water use
One day he happened across a story about a little chicken who got hit on the head by an acorn falling from a tree
and poop and make messes. They are intelligent and creative individually and collectively figuring out solutions to their own problems.
and solving problems by the billions is complicated too to incorporate into the simple math of Dr. Chicken Little so he just ignores it.
and others and make up a substantial portion of the grizzly's diet in the summertime.
The bears without access to the fruit they'd normally be eating have to eat more meat
A terrible disease Scientific American calls it the most devastating disease of citrus plants in the world is spreading in the U s. Five years from now there may be no more Florida orange juice one University of Florida scientist J
There's no known treatment for sick trees nor any pesticide that is able to kill sufficient numbers of the illness'carrier an insect called the Asian citrus psyllid to totally prevent the disease's spread.
because a food is modified genetically doesn't necessarily mean it harms human health. Nevertheless many consumers find GMOS strange or scary.
Such worries come through in Europe's stringent genetically modified food laws and recent ballot initiatives in the U s. to label genetically modified items.
Without headlines like The End of Orange juice the story of a citrus disease sounds boring.
The orange juice industry has some dirty secrets anyways. For once if you're drinking processed orange juice and
I bet very few of you fresh squeeze it every day then you're drinking methanol.
When juice is processed first the methanol in it is bound to pectin and passes through your body harmlessly.
if you want healthy orange juice. Of course that would crash a huge juice industry wouldn't it?
Very few of you know how to eat healthy because few of you understand the chemistry involved in preserving the food you eat.
If you did you would stop eating most processed food altogether. This is not just a unique thing to Orange juice either.
Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.
Perhaps a better contingency to avoid the extinction of oranges (does this disease affect oranges worldwide?
when people get hurt in expected ways like in a bar fight but going back to the previous example slipping on a banana peel might be.
That's why we let our kids watch the Looney Toons beat the stuffing out of each other:
me and 2 friends were sitting silently eating a meal one day gazing out of the restaurant window.
A man and his 2 sons had parked the other side of the small fence to the restaurant.
you seem to have a serious beef with 3d printing technology...As someone who does a lot of one-off production
and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.
Meat only counts as health food if you are in a stone-age culture. Another squirrely climate story brought to you by the crazies@poop science.
While it would be exceptionally nice to be able to preserve some of the natural beauty of the earth growing pressure on the environment global food sources
The same can be said about certain additives in food. You wouldn't give your children known carcinogens to eat would you?
and lived longer lives due to no vaccinations plentiful preservative-free fresh foods and healthier lifestyles. Go hunt up mortality rates for the US from 100 years ago.
This reminds me of the argument about acne and chocolate. Chocolate companies have proven there is no link to acne and chocolate.
But it isn't the chocolate that causes the acne. it's the paraffin they put in the chocolate to make it shine
and look pretty that causes the acne. wow symptoms got auto-corrected to systems. nice PS.
and the process is clean water clean food oxygen and cleansing the body of toxins.
Where did a gluten allergy come from? Where did peanut allergies come from? And quite a few other conditions or allergies that weren't just discovered because the science advanced.
Would Popsci give ALL children peanut butter? No because some are allergic. Same with vaccines. We have understood just GB Syndrome
The INDUSTRY does NOT test adjuvants for sensitivities. There have been NO modern studies on them
So we may have a bigger pool of children sensitive to various adjuvants which many are put in just to lower the production costs not a true safety concern.
I am the only child in my family with food allergies I am allergic to most raw fruits and vegetables most beans and all tree nuts.
It would probably be better for you than eating beef. what if...this is the ancestor of the cow.
Large trees however could survive for several decades thanks to slow metabolism and substantial sugar stores.
With the food chain's bottom tier knocked out most animals would die off quickly but scavengers picking over the dead remains could last until the cold killed them.
We can grow food withotu sunlight. Real issue is our direction..will we actually collide
More likely though we would simply alter course significantly depending on how close we get. Just think of how many earths could fit in-between the surface of the earth and the moon alone.
Our food sources will of course be affected directly since plants will stop photosynthesizing immediately and this will affect the supply of food âÂ#Âoeon handã¢Â#Â
which would be the thing that determines how long humans are able to live âÂ#Âthe ambient temps being around zero food preservation will not be a problem
but staying warm will. The food in our refrigerators will probably be eaten within a matter of days
and grocery stores will be pressed hard to keep the shelves stocked certainly not with fruits and vegetables other than whatã¢Â#Â#s canned
but the inventory of even canned food would only last a few weeks at most. Fish would probably start dying soon too
since the food chain in rivers/oceans would be disrupted by the end of photosynthesis so even canned tuna/salmon would be used up within a few weeks.
Assuming you stop eating at the point the sun stops shining âÂ#Âwhich would be the case for some of us âÂ#Âhow long would it take to starve
We could keep livestock alive perhaps for a few months longer with reserves of feedstock supplies like hay
and corn (although keeping entire barns warm would be a problem) then butcher these animals for food
which would provide a slightly longer term supply of food heavy on the protein but then that would be gone say a few months after the sun stopped shining at
and food for the livestock very carefully and will probably use fire instead of electricity for cooking starting about month 3 if not sooner
That would never happen the food supplies would be gone long! One commenter Lifestream said âÂ#Âoewhile nature wonã¢Â#Â#t survive-humans will at least a portion of us.
We can grow food without sunlight. âÂ# This isnã¢Â#Â#t just more of that crazy optimism but contains several remarkable<b>epistemological fallacies.
We are part of the food chain not separate from it. The top of the food chain is actually the most vulnerable
since it relies on everything leading up to it. If any part of the food chain is compromised weã¢Â#Â#re cooked.<
<b>Second</b>humans are evolved NOT enough to survive in freezing climate. We are warm blooded this is anathema to existence in sub zero temps.<
because the real and only issue is FOOD and STAYING WARM both of which will be impossible almost immediately for some and soon after for all.
How could these things be going on with no light and no food and subzero temps?
just as the organic grocery stores and adventurous Japanese fusion tapas restaurants come to gentrifying neighborhoods. A smartphone ecosystem is not unlike a neighborhood:
and recently updated to Android 4. 2 blows away my buddies vanilla iphone 5 in almost all regards period.
#And America's Unhealthiest Restaurant Meal Isã¢Â# Like a tale-telling fisherman fast-seafood restaurant Long John Silver's may have exaggerated the size and nutritional value of its fish.
The lobbying group Center for Science in the Public interest says it performed its own independent nutritional analysis of Long John Silver's dishes
In addition the center has named Long John Silver's Big Catch with a side of onion rings as the unhealthiest restaurant meal in America.
Although other restaurant meals have more calories the center says the Big Catch caught its attention because of its high amounts of trans fats.
So the meal's high amounts of trans fats saturated fat and sodium come from its battering and side dishes.
In a letter to the U s. Food and Drug Administration the Center for Science in the Public interest used Long John Silver's as an example to lobby for a ban on partially hydrogenated oils
which are a major source of trans fats in food in America. The group is involved in a variety of food-related lobbying such as campaigns to remove junk food from schools
and require nutrition labeling on menus. In 2006 the center sued KFC over trans fats in its meals.
Big Catch fish pieces are seven ounces to eight ounces of 100 percent premium haddock chief marketing officer Charles st.
Clair has said in press releases. But the Center for Science in the Public interest found a Big Catch fish piece had 4. 5 ounces of fish and three ounces of batter.
In addition the group found the restaurant undershot the amounts of trans fats saturated fat and sodium it reports for its onion rings and hushpuppies both
of which may come with a Big Catch meal. The biggest discrepancy was in the amount of trans fats the center found in Long John Silver's onion rings
While the restaurant brochure says a serving contains seven grams of trans fat the center found 19.5 grams.
We stand behind our published food data and will review any requests from CSPI that raise questions about our data it said.
For its analysis the Center for Science in the Public interest sent a Big Catch basket with onion rings to Eurofins a private international food analysis company.
Eurofins found the meal had 34 grams of trans fats. The U s. government's most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends as little trans fats as possible.
The American Heart Association says trans fats consumption is linked with increased risk of heart disease stroke
Eurofins also found the Big Catch meal has 19 grams of saturated fat and 3700 milligrams of sodium.
Eating too much saturated fat raises cholesterol in the blood which in turn is linked with a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
In those places Long John Silver's foods are fried in canola oil and should have no trans fats.
Typical people eat for pleasure Typical restaurant feed the typical person to be pleased and make profit
So first change your own thinking as you approach a meal by stopping eating first for pleasure.
Instead focus on eating to LIVE nutritionally for today and the long run. Second do not believe typical restaurants
or anyone who manufactures foods has your best interest at heart health that is but instead they are focus on profit
and will do anything legally possible to reach that goal. Oh maybe not breaking the law
. when you make an assertion such as Eating too much saturated fat raises cholesterol in the blood...
The taste buds on the tongue include lots of taste receptors little bits of protein that bond with other chemicals to detect and signal flavor.
Eating Yogurt Turns Mice into Giant-Balled Seduction Machines...Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males:
On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males...
http://jezebel. com/5908274/eating-yogurt-turns-mice-into-giant+balled-seduction-machines...Oh my god.
Now it turns out that yogurt our precious lady-nectar! might make men's testicle-balls bigger spermier
What's next are they going to announce that watching House Hunters International makes your semen taste like fondue?
and obesity fed a group of 80 mice either a junk food diet or a standard diet supplementing half of each group with yogurt.
As expected the junk-food mice wound up fatter and slower than the standard-diet mice and the mice that ate the standard diet plus yogurt were the slimmest of all.
This suggests that incorporating probiotics into one's diet can help with weight loss. Also (favorite sentence:
the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Sparkle you special little mouse!
Sparkle! But what the researchers didn't anticipate was this: Those mices'balls got HUGE:
On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.
Conversely females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success. So once
Animals then get that carbon from eating plants or eating animals that eat plants. Other research groups have used the Cold war spike in carbon-14 to figure out the birthdates of human brain cells fat cells and teeth.
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Our grocery stores are stocked to the brim with nearly 100%garbage that has almost no nutritional value at all.
what will soon be the heart of the Breakfast Cereal exhibit at the Museum of Food and Drink.
Friend of Popsci Dave Arnold and his museum crew have acquired a working 3200-pound specimen of early-20th-century food technology:
and the topic of conversation the Earth can be considered flat ball egg shaped or maybe from a a great distance a single point in the cosmos.
Junipers are known for the berries which give gin that piney flavor. Most gin companies don't get their juniper berries from the U k. nowadays ABC News reports
but the infection may cross onto mainland Europe. The organism responsible is strangely new to science.
and prevent the spread of bad bacteria. The Moko-Panama disease treatment system is administered by first injecting the affected plants and surrounding plants with a proprietary clay mineral extract.
By making the soil ph neutral it makes it easier for the plants to absorb nutrients.
When the infected plants absorb nutrient better they become healthier and better at fighting off the infection.
and prevent the spread of infection. This way if the farmer does need to chop down several banana trees he only needs to get rid of the dead ones.
âÂ#Âoeit was really important for us for this system to be food-grade safe
because it touches our food. We also want the farmers that implement this in their farms to feel safe
#Woman Drinks Coke Instead of Water For 16 Yearsa 31-year-old Monaco woman was admitted recently to the hospital after suffering arrhythmia
instead she drank only cola. The doctors told her to stop drinking cola and then promptly wrote a paper describing the case.
This is one of those instances like in the movie Super Size Me that isn't really indicative of anything besides the specific case it describes.
In Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock consumed nothing by Mcdonald's for a full month
probably not even Mcdonald's executives would suggest that anybody actually do this. That though was a movie about an experiment not someone's actual life.
And so it's fascinating to see just what kind of damage such an extreme diet choice can do to a person's body.
The patient apparently drank about two liters of cola every day! Here were the effects: The patient's blood-potassium level was 2. 4 mmol/L. Normal blood-potassium levels for a woman of her age should have been about twice that.
Amazingly as soon as the doctors took the patient off of her bonkers cola habit her potassium levels
or exaggerated her claim of only drinking coke huh. While I do not believe drinking coke is part of healthy diet pyramid
and drinking much coke will cause health problems I do not consider this article science but instead just oddball human observational story telling.
Funny...because I pretty much did just this myself. Not proud of it but I did. I once bought a 2. 5 gallon container of water with the pouring spout
don't besmirch the word science by writing such an unscientific article like this demonizing soda for this woman's OVERALL terrible health habits.
The Coke probably helped unbalance her potassium but had she been eating any assortment of vegetables that have plenty of potassium
I'm sure she would have been able to keep her levels up. probably not even Mcdonald's executives would suggest that anybody actually do this.
They insisted their food was healthynorma blood-potassium levels for a woman of her age should have been about twice that.
when personal opinion was added to the tune of Probably not even Mcdonald's executives would suggest that anybody actually do this.
If we were to follow a person who cut out all processed food and only lived off of water
Substituting coke for water or Mcdonald's for sustenance is simply a way to show that the accessories that the food industry has to offer are not healthier alternatives to the accessories that occur naturally.
What if we took a person who drank two liters of cola every day and had them switch to water for 16 years?
What would the article headline be then? I suspect it would sound like common sense...If you think Mark`s story is amazing...
Cat48. comthis scenario presents itself everytime in other countries for example in my country Mexico the country has the first place on coke (USA sewer water) consuption
dad mom coke Drinking coke for to many time I'm surprised that no kidney stones appeared here in Mexico is the most common first symptom that appears to coke drinkers.
me to the wonders of Coke when at just after graduating from a newborn she put a little bit in my bottle an archaic tradition in many hispanic countries that is losing popularity
The doctors suggested giving me a half-ounce or less of Coke to calm me down.
old enough to grab my own tasty beverage. My choice? Coke of course. I was diagnosed with Diabetes at the age of 11
but it's not what you think. This was caused the sort by something in my genes.
You're thinking all the Coca-cola did me in but being a diabetic would have been a fact regardless of what
I now consume (more or less) 2-liters of Diet Coke per day. Here's the thing...
The rest of my diet more than makes up for whatever kind of poisons I put in my body.
Lots of vegetables (mostly raw) high-fiber fruits (like plums and such) low carbs and clean protein (although I do have a weakness for steak.
I've been drinking nearly 2-liters of Coke per day for most of my life and
had an aunt who drank nothing but soda for a few years and got diabetes...Morgan Spurlock consumed nothing by Mcdonald's for a full month...
giographix your current age is of no consequence. Your age at the time of your death particularly if your demise was the direct result of anything but accident.
The fast food industry has shown a propensity to give what the masses want fast food often with little nutrition.
Many are unaware of the damaging effects from repeated visiting their particular fast food establishment. One person that was suffering from kidney failure was diagnosed as having eaten three times a day for a month at a local Mcdonald's restaurant.
Once this person quit this culinary habit their kidneys returned to normal. Coke is strong enough that mechanics use it to kill battery acid.
It also contains phosphoric acid the same chemical used to kill rust. There is a Bible principle that many have followed with regard to
what they eat and drink: Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceed to conceal himself
Prov 22:3) The body can handle small amounts of various foods and drinks we take in that is not natural
but health issues can result (and it varies from person to person) when they make a steady diet of unnatural foods.
A person should gauge themselves as to how they feel and take the necessary measures when they note that a certain food
or drink is causing a change in how they perhaps feel. IâÂ#Â#m surprised that some of the comments below are missing the point.
I think the story is about how resilient the human body can be after spoiling it just like what the article on http://superhuman. ly pointed out.
Arenã¢Â#Â#t you amazed that after just a week of leaving off the soda her levels were almost back to normal?
I have been drinking a six pack or more of coke/Pepsi since I was 16. I am 43 now.
I've been switched drinking Pepsi from Coke after the New Coke scandal of 1986) for over 4 decades at the rate of about 4 cans a day.
never diet or caffeine free though) My BMI is perfect as is my health. I have the eating habits of an urban raccoon and barely touch fruits or veg.
I smoke fairly heavily but can still do a 5k without a single wheeze. I have bad knees
I rarely touch water or juice but I also don't drink coffee tea milk or alcohol.
I suspect my ridiculously good health is more good gene's and a good mental attitude than anything the scientific community can quantify.
I've been drinking coke for 30 years now I drink anywhere from 2 to 4 liters daily.
and a majority of the Trashy people that come in there only know of Soda pop as their drink of choice.
I suggested he stop drinking Soda pop and instead drink water. He says Water taste like
The Coke had nothing to do with her illness or her low potassium. Like most soft drinks Coke is water
and sugar with tiny amounts of caffeine and phosphoric acid and flavors giving energy from the sugar and water to hydrate the body but empty of other nutrients and in no way harmful.
Her illness was ENTIRELY due to something else very likely insufficient nutrients deficiency of some critical nutrients.
Gosh what a bunch of idiots you are! The article and responses should not have been printed in a publication that calls itself Science.
I do doubt the doctor's conclusions that the cola was the problem. I know many people who have drank only colas (more than 2l per day) for 30-40 years
and do not have potassium problems nor are they diabetic. I also know two people who had heart attacks from drinking too much water as in greater than 3l in a day.
One person died. The autopsy showed the friend's blood had been diluted so much they could barely find any potassium in it.
The surviving friend now limits himself to. 5l a day total of water and on rare occasions a beer or a glass of wine.
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