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Rachael Floreani - University of Vermont

International Scientific Conference on Cultured Meat 10 - 2024 - Maastricht

Abstract:
The technology used to grow meat is like tissue engineering - the challenge is scaling the technology to feed the world, which provides our team with an opportunity to create essential products to increase meat production rate. This can be achieved by increasing the cell expansion rate. We have created materials to encourage cell proliferation for rapid meat production, which incorporate a brown seaweed derivative, and whey protein, which provides cell adhesion ligands, enabling cell adhesive alginate scaffolds. Whey protein supports significantly higher cell proliferation rates for medical tissue regeneration. Our innovation lies in the use of whey protein in cultivated meat production, specifically as the primary component of the tissue engineering scaffold. We can uniquely fine-tune the material mechanical properties and manipulate the three-dimensional (3D) structure and topography. To fabricate our scaffold, we have designed manufacturing techniques which will scale for production, while keeping in mind that it is critical to maintain a specific structure to successfully develop meat in the lab. The engineering of animal muscle tissue in this manner has not been realized.