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Aleph Farms, an Israeli food company, Aleph Farms collaborated with the Russian
announced on Oct 7 th that its experiment
aboard the International Space Station
resulted in the first-ever lab-grown meat in
space. The company focuses on growing
cultivated beef steaks, or growing an entire
piece of real, edible meat out of just a
couple of cells, in this case, bovine cell
spheroids, in a lab.
On the space station, the experiment
involved growing a piece of meat by
mimicking a cow's natural muscle-tissue
regeneration process.
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company 3D Bioprinting Solutions and two
U.S.-based food companies to test this
method in space.
On Sept. 26, the team established a proof of
concept when the astronauts performing
the test were able to produce a small piece
of cow muscle tissue on the space station.
The experiment took place inside of a 3D
bioprinter .
B i o p r i n t i n g i s a p r o c e s s i n w h i c h
biomaterials, like animal cells, are mixed
with growth factors and the material
"bioink," and "printed" into a layered
structure. In this case, the resulting
structure is a piece of muscle tissue.
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