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Scientists from the University of Missouri, the University of Maryland and the Animal Bioscience and Biotechnology Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service have published an article in Nature outlining a method for "generating skeletal muscle efficiently from porcine induced pluripotent stem cells (piPSC) in vitro thereby providing a versatile platform for applications ranging from regenerative biology to the ex vivo cultivation of meat". The research used a porcine stem cell line to generate muscular tissue instead of cells taken directly from a pig:
"What the paper describes is research designed to generate muscle from a newly established pig stem-cell line, rather that from primary cells taken directly from a pig," co-author Dr. Nicholas Genovese, a stem-cell biologist (and vegetarian), told Digital Trends. "This entailed understanding the biology of relatively uncharacterized and recently-derived porcine induced pluripotent stem cell lines. What conditions support cell growth, survival and differentiation? These are all questions I had to figure out in the lab before the cells could be turned into muscle."
Also at GlobalMeatNews.
Enhanced Development of Skeletal Myotubes from Porcine Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (open, DOI: 10.1038/srep41833) (DX)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @03:08PM
Which is fine as long as you don't want to suffer from nutrient deficiency. Humans evolved to eat meat as a part of our diets and removing the meat from our diets results in health problems. There's a reason why vegetarians and vegans don't live as long as people who eat a sensible meat based diet.
There's also a reason why vegetarians and vegans have to use a strawman diet in order to claim that the diets are healthier. There are no health problems associated with getting 10 or 20% of your calories from quality cuts of meat. The health problems from meat are mostly when that number gets to be 70 or 80% of junk meat.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @07:58PM
There's a reason why vegetarians and vegans don't live as long as people who eat a sensible meat based diet.
And what reason would that be?
Or is it no reason at all, since vegetarians live 6-9 years longer than everybody else. [nydailynews.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @10:46PM
Maybe those who know, consciously or unconsciously, that they are about to die choose to eat meat.