Chicken grown in vats is the next frontier of food

Scientists are perfecting the art of creating tasty beef, fish and poultry in laboratories, but will it ever bring home the bacon?

Elliot Swartz, GFI’s senior scientist, said: “As we’ve seen with smartphones, solar panels and genome sequencing, many impactful technologies that now shape our lives were unimaginable before key scientific breakthroughs made them possible. Cultivated meat companies and scientists have already successfully challenged many historical assumptions about animal cell culture and we have far from exhausted the creativity of researchers in this field.