AlcheMeat—how the future of animal production rests with biochemistry

Innovations in regenerative medicine, stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and biopharmaceutical production are responsible for saving countless lives and completely transforming healthcare. But what if this research could be applied to more than individual medical treatments? New applications within these fields could further address public safety concerns, global malnourishment, environmental issues, and animal abuse. In fact, these types of studies could lead to prevention of many of the diseases they initially set out to treat! Foci within these areas, such as telomerase expression, cell differentiation, induced pluripotency, three-dimensional tissue formation, recombinant protein production and CRISPR, are now being used for something entirely different — making meat.