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World’s first lab-grown burger served

London, 5 August: The world’s first lab-grown beef burger, costing a whopping 215,000 pounds, was cooked up and tasted in…

London, 5 August: The world’s first lab-grown beef burger, costing a whopping 215,000 pounds, was cooked up and tasted in public here today and experts say it is “close to meat” but lacks fat and flavour. The “cultured beef” burger in a petri dish, was created after five years of research at an institute in the Netherlands by taking cells from a cow.
The 5oz patty, dubbed ‘Frankenburger’ by some sections of the British media, was unveiled for the first time by creator Professor Mark Post from Maastricht University in Hammersmith, west London. The scientist-turned-chef made the most expensive beef burger in history from 20,000 tiny strips of meat grown from cow stem cells over a three-month period.     PTI

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