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Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table

What if the next burger you ate was created in a warm, nutrient-enriched soup swirling within a bioreactor?

Edible, lab-grown ground chuck that smells and tastes just like the real thing might take a place next to Quorn at supermarkets in just a few years, thanks to some determined meat researchers. Scientists routinely grow small quantities of muscle cells in petri dishes for experiments, but now for the first time a concentrated effort is under way to mass-produce meat in this manner.

By Lakshmi Sandhana

Full Story: http://wired.com/news/technology/0,71201-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

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