Meat Analogue - Lab-grown Animal Tissue

Lab-grown Animal Tissue

Biologists have long researched methods for growing muscle tissue in laboratory conditions. Advocacy group PETA has offered a $1 million prize to the first company that can bring lab-grown chicken meat to consumers by 2012.

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