Cloned meat and soft rock.
Xeni visits a tissue culturing workshop at Machine Project in Los Angeles. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr of the bio-art collective SymbioticA in Australia teach us how to extract stem cells from bovine bones, and grow a clump of tasty tissue, some spare ears, or a set of pig wings in a petri dish -- in just 9 short months.
(music: Laura Lopez)
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Zombified meat cells. This should end well. Ever seen John Carpenter's The Thing?
That said, this is one of the funniest lead-ins yet. And Xeni's girl reporter ensemble just needs a little hat with a press pass in the band.
:S i think i'm going to get more sick.
Makes me comfortable to be vegetarian; no danger of winged pig bacon!
makes me comfortable to be an omnivore: winged pig bacon with a side of genetically modified meds-inside veggies!
Does anyone have any more information on the actual process after cell extraction?
I don't know if this will help anyone, but if I remember right you can make cell growth scaffolding by dissolving a crab shell in vinegar and then putting the resulting solution in the freezer.
Sooo sad I missed this!
Maybe they used too many monkeys?
Basically you have to make some sterile media that have the nutrients your cells need to grow. Then you put your cells with a thin layer of media in a flask, and put that in an incubator for about a week or two, changing media every few days, until they're confluent. (Non-cancerous cells will adhere to the bottom of the flask, much like cells will adhere to each other to form tissue/organs.)
Carniculture. Mmmmmm, yummy.