Valeti: Memphis Meats uses self-renewing cells for cultured muscle tissue
Uma Valeti · a16z Podcast | Old Food, New Tech -- 'Clean Meat' · Jan 2, 2019 · at 12:37
Uma Valeti, co-founder and CEO of Memphis Meats, explains cell selection methods for cell-cultured meat production during a panel on alternative proteins.
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“We do take cells that already are in areas that people enjoy eating, but we also have other cells, which can reproduce and self-renew themselves and become very high-quality muscle tissue.”
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