Q: What are stem cells? A: Stem cells are an organism’s master cells and can be turned into any other cell type in the body, i.e. blood, tissue, muscle, etc. Adult stem cells are found in small ...

A lab-grown hamburger — made from beef raised in a petri dish instead of a pasture — cost scientists more than $300,000 to produce, and it doesn't taste half-bad, say the people who have tried it.

Beef is growing in the Petri dishes of ETH professor Ori Bar-Nur, an expert in regenerative and muscle biology. However, he hasn't yet tasted the cultivated meat because human consumption requires ...

BETWEEN COURSES at Green Americana, a pop-up restaurant in San Francisco’s Mission District, chefs Philip Saneski and Emily Hopkins explain their creations. Some of the tableside patter is familiar.

For most people outside the R&D lab and the small number of countries that have approved it, cultivated meat has remained shrouded in mystique. An exciting innovation in the abstract, yes, but when it ...