Memphis Meats
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Food technology |
| Founders | Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, Will Clem |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, CA, U.S. |
| Website |
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Memphis Meats is a food technology company headquartered in San Francisco aiming to grow sustainable cultured meat.[1] The company was founded by three scientists: Uma Valeti (CEO), Nicholas Genovese (CSO), and Will Clem.[2] Valeti is a cardiologist and medical professor at the University of Minnesota.[1]
The company plans to produce various meat products using biotechnology to induce stem cells to differentiate into muscle tissue and to manufacture the meat products in bioreactors.[1] In February 2016 Memphis Meats published a video of a cultured meatball, and in March 2017 the company published a video of cultured chicken and duck dishes.[3][4][5][6]
The production cost of the cultured beef was $18,000 per pound ($40,000/kg), and the production cost of the cultured poultry was $9,000 per pound ($20,000/kg).[4][7][8] The company said it anticipated cost reductions and commercial release of its products by 2021.[4][6][5]
References
- 1 2 3 Bunge, Jacob (2 February 2016). "Sizzling Steaks May Soon Be Lab-Grown". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "The Memphis Meats Team". Memphis Meats. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ↑ Gelman, Susan (February 29, 2016). "Meat Without Misery". The Common Reader. Online.
- 1 2 3 Bunge, Jacob (15 March 2017). "Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab". The Wall Street Journal.
- 1 2 Farber, Madeline (15 March 2017). "A San Francisco Startup Is Serving Chicken That Was Made in a Lab". Fortune.
- 1 2 Kooser, Amanda (16 March 2017). "This lab-grown chicken and duck meat looks surprisingly delicious". CNET.
- ↑ "'World's first' lab-grown meatball revealed". Fox News. 3 February 2016.
- ↑ Addady, Michal (2 February 2016). "You Could Be Eating Lab-Grown Meat in Just Five Years". Fortune.