Lab Burger

The Dutch team that crafted the world's first lab-grown meat burger, which cost 215,000 pounds to make, says a cheaper version of the product could hit the market in five years.

In vitro meat heralds the dawn of a new age (if we gloss over its culturing in antibiotics and something called foetal bovine serum)Dude, just tweeze those meat fibres out of whatever nutritional soup-filled Petri dishes I imagine they're currently swishing...

The 'Google burger' has reignited the debate about where the fault line between processed and unadulterated food lies. What do the experts reckon?Monday's big food news was the great reveal and taste test of a burger made of lab-raised cultured beef....

The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning -- and maybe some cheese.Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it good marks for texture but agreed there was something missing."I miss the salt...

They bit, they chewed, but had hoped for more flavour. Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday that it had the texture of meat but was short of flavour because of the lack of fat.

A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger.

The Dutch team that crafted the world's first lab-grown meat burger, which cost 215,000 pounds to make, says a cheaper version of the product could hit the market in five years.

In vitro meat heralds the dawn of a new age (if we gloss over its culturing in antibiotics and something called foetal bovine serum)Dude, just tweeze those meat fibres out of whatever nutritional soup-filled Petri dishes I imagine they're currently swishing...

The 'Google burger' has reignited the debate about where the fault line between processed and unadulterated food lies. What do the experts reckon?Monday's big food news was the great reveal and taste test of a burger made of lab-raised cultured beef....

The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning -- and maybe some cheese.Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it good marks for texture but agreed there was something missing."I miss the salt...

They bit, they chewed, but had hoped for more flavour. Two volunteers who participated in the first public frying of hamburger grown in a lab said Monday that it had the texture of meat but was short of flavour because of the lack of fat.

A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger.