Startup Hitches Ride on ISS to Make Space Meat

  • Steaks from outer space may be next in global warming fight
  • Israelis and Russians create cow muscle on space station
Muscle tissue assembled from bovine cell spheroids.Source: 3D Bioprinting Solutions
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In the world of artificial meats, you can’t get more alien than growing your beef in space.

That’s what the Israeli startup Aleph Farms showed might be possible in an experiment on the International Space Station last week, where it grew small-scale muscle tissue from bovine cells using equipment made by the Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions.