Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab
At $9,000 per pound of meat, this is not going to be replacing real meat from animals anytime soon. Chickens are already highly efficient when it comes to converting feed into edible meat. I'm skeptical that cell culture will ever be able to come close to the same level of efficiency.<p>Cell cultures need to be sterile, the sugars, growth factors,  and other nutrients used need to be highly refined. These are not requirements that are likely to change in the foreseeable future.