Scaffolding Biomaterials for 3D Cultivated Meat: Prospects and Challenges.

ABSTRACT: Cultivating meat from stem cells rather than by raising animals is a promising solution to concerns about the negative externalities of meat production. For cultivated meat to fully mimic conventional meat's organoleptic and nutritional properties, innovations in scaffolding technology are required. Many scaffolding technologies are already developed for use in biomedical tissue engineering. However, cultivated meat production comes with a unique set of constraints related to the scale and cost of production as well as the necessary attributes of the final product, such as texture and food safety. This review discusses the properties of vertebrate skeletal muscle that will need to be replicated in a successful product and the current state of scaffolding innovation within the cultivated me

SUBMITTER: Bomkamp C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8787436 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature