Why have we been able to clone animals since the 90s, but lab-grown meat is still just an emerging technology?

Question

How come we have been able to clone animals for 25 years but I cant get a lab-grown burger yet?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Cloning doesn’t create a fully grown animal from nothing. It just creates an embryo that with the DNA of an existing animal. This embryo still needs to be implanted into the uterus of a living creature and develop like any other fetus.