{"id":2447,"date":"2025-04-17T14:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/chicken-nuggets-grown-in-a-lab-in-world-first\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T14:01:32","slug":"chicken-nuggets-grown-in-a-lab-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/chicken-nuggets-grown-in-a-lab-in-world-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken nuggets grown in a lab in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-17 14:01:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Chicken nuggets have been grown in a lab for the first time.<BR><br \/>\nJapanese scientists have invented a process that mimics blood vessels to allow cells to grow in layers of muscle tissue and the breakthrough could finally lead to meat being realistically engineered.<BR><br \/>\nLab-grown chicken is currently made using sheets of cells less than 1mm thick that need to be processed into something that resembles meat, leading to an unrealistic texture.<BR><br \/>\nThe engineers in Tokyo produced a bite-sized piece of chicken weighing over 10g and are hopeful of building larger pieces in the future.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Shoji Takeuchi, of the University of Tokyo, said: &#8220;Cultured meat offers a sustainable, ethical alternative to conventional meat.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;However, replicating the texture and taste of whole-cut meat remains difficult.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our technology enables the production of structured meat with improved texture and flavour, potentially accelerating its commercial viability.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re using semipermeable hollow fibres, which mimic blood vessels in their ability to deliver nutrients to the tissues.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our study presents a scalable, top-down strategy for producing whole-cut cultured meat.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-17 14:01:31 Chicken nuggets have been grown in a lab for the first time. Japanese scientists have invented a process that mimics blood vessels to allow cells to grow in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}