'Breeding' sausages in test tubes

A Dutch professor announced in 2012, for the first time in the world people will produce sausages in the laboratory. However, he added, this sausage will not be cheap but it is not very good.

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Professor Mark J. Post, Maastricht University told Reuters news agency: 'The first batch of sausages is just to prove an idea. We just want to point out, that can be done, that's all. I believe, I can do it next year. According to him, the sausage born from test tubes will cost about 250 thousand Euro: 'This is heavy manual work so it is expensive,' the researcher explained.

Mark J. Post believes that next year he will raise sausages in the laboratory.

Mark Post was the first scientist in the world to make a piece of pork in a laboratory. He is currently seeking funding from anonymous donors and hopes that around August, at the very end of September to next year, he will perform with the world the first artificial sausage. He said before: 'It is a real sausage but it is not very good. We are having an easy problem, so there is a lot of work ahead. '

To make artificial meat, Professor Post used the original material as stem cells, obtained from the biological material he had extracted from the scrap of a slaughterhouse. So far, he has "made" a piece of real meat, about 2.5cm long, less than 1cm wide and thin to transparent.

Sausages are "farmed" from the laboratory.

The idea of ​​making artificial meat was proposed by Winston Tchernill. Among the greater achievements in this research direction, people often mention creating a piece of heart muscle through a bioprinter.

The creation of natural products in the laboratory is implicating humanity in many issues that are very attentive and also an urgent need. Only to create artificial meat in 2012 had to mobilize millions of dollars. But the mass of meat collected is probably not equal to a chicken.