On 24/3/22 01:59, James Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via
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> On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, 15:47 Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at
> port.ac.uk <http://port.ac.uk> (via tml list), <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
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>     pp.68-70 Made of Meat – Abby Olena
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>     biotech industry chipping away at obstacles between lab and dinner
>     plate
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>     cells that an grow continuously needed – and maintain particular
>     features (shape, size, and ability to differentiate into different
>     types forever (e.g. muscle cells from killifish)
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>     e.g. HigherSteaks Ltd focussing on induced pluripotent stem cells
>     (iPSCs) which like other stem cells, have no problem dividing
>     indefinitely (also allows researchers to produce multiple tissue
>     types from a single cell line – meat is not just muscle, not just
>     fat but a concoction of cells)
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>     use of bioreactors – 200,000+ litre vessels which the cells grow
>     in liquid suspension containing nutrients and growth factors and
>     often small beads, or microcarriers, made of gelatin, glass, or
>     plastic that the cells can adhere to
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>     one of most expensive parts of culturing cells concerns choice of
>     growth media, which typically contain nutrients, vitamins,
>     minerals, growth factors and proteins
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>     regulatory and consumer approval
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>     Traveller – feed your hungry masses!But this might give some
>     detail for adventures ‘behind the scenes’
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> I recall reading a few years back about a water filtration system for
> dealing with human waste that used algae in tanks that ate the waste
> and were then filtered out. The interesting bit was that the algae
> themselves were edible...
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> A neat solution which would work well for largely closed systems on
> space stations and the like, although designed for use here on earth.
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> I haven't heard anything about it since, I suspect the idea didn't go
> beyond the research stage due to the obvious problem in selling it to
> investors!

Maybe they needed to run the filtrate through other animals first?

IIRC, GT had "applied biotechnology", such as fauxflesh vats as part of
full life support systems.  I think it was GT:FT that flagged the
problem of being on a ship too small to sustain multiple different
_types_ of such - "Beef AGAIN? I'd kill for lamb!".

Looks like they managed to underestimate SOTA.... again.

Alex