Lab-grown meat tackles environmental and ethical challenges. Challenges include high production costs and public perception.

By Andrew Jacobs and Emily Anthes Curious to try a lab-grown chicken sandwich? Don’t look to satiate your craving in Mississippi, which earlier this week moved to ban so-called cultivated or ...

"Human beings are already eating it," she points out. "In Singapore, it is an American startup supplying the lab-grown chicken and it has passed all the food standard regulations there." Uri Weill, ...

So how does lab-grown meat come to life? It starts with cells from a fertilised chicken egg. Scientists choose the best ones, making sure they grow continuously into high-quality, safe meat.

"It's closer to a science experiment than it is a steak,” one House member said during debate on the ban that was passed on a ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) offered an award of $1 million to the first scientist who could grow ...

Are cell-cultivated products a realistic alternative to meat, or too impractical to ever make it to our plates?

The UK is not the first country to explore lab-grown meat. Singapore became the first to approve cultivated chicken for consumer sale in 2020, followed by the US in 2023. In 2024, Israel made ...

"Human beings are already eating it," she points out. "In Singapore, it is an American startup supplying the lab-grown chicken and it has passed all the food standard regulations there." ...