The dinner plate of the future might include some beefy rice.
No, not beef and rice.
But they soon realized that bare rice alone might not be the best scaffold for these cells.
The team’s microbeef rice.Image: Yonsei University
Their subsequent creation, which they call microbeef, seems to be an early success.
The creation is still only modestly more nutritious than regular rice for the time being.
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To create their hybrid rice, the researchers seeded rice grains with precursor muscle or fat cow cells, then grew the cells with the help of a petri dish.Photo: Yonsei University
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