How come we have been able to clone animals for 25 years but I cant get a lab-grown burger yet?
In: Biology
When you clone, you grow the whole organism in a completely natural way, it gestates inside a surrogate mother and gets born, like every other animal. When you lab-grow meat, it’s not a whole organism, it’s isolated tissue, and you need to somehow imitate the organs that nourish this tissue: something to replace the heart pumping blood through it, something to replace the intestines providing new proteins and fats for it, something to replace the kidneys that remove the bad stuff from it.
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