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Elfenbein: Skin-to-stem-cell reprogramming bypassed ethical hurdles in biology
“Prior to that, there was a moratorium on research in the United States on stem cells, and the future of understanding how these incredible cells grow, develop, and communicate with each other was really in question because of this, and so this incredible disco…”
Elfenbein: Mark Post created the world's first cell-cultivated hamburger
“And one in particular, Dr. Mark Post in the Netherlands was somebody who actually, you know, about 15 years before that, I had worked in the same lab with also doing cardiac research. And he had gone on to create the world's first hamburger in this way, and he…”
Elfenbein: Cultivated cells require structural scaffolding to mimic meat texture
“Cells on their own they don't know how to spontaneously kind of organize into, you know, a piece of sashimi, for example. Right. They need structures. And they need to follow cues from their environment to organize in this way, to create all the complexities o…”
Elfenbein: Foie gras is predominantly comprised of a single cell type
“And the reason is because it's relatively homogeneous in terms of its texture, and it's actually also predominantly one cell type. So it's not sort of fat cells and liver cells. It's mostly liver cells that have just been exposed to a lot of fat.”
Elfenbein: Wildtype abandoned cultivated luxury foie gras to maximize environmental impact
“We started to realize that what we didn't want to be creating was a company that just made fine food for fancy people. And instead we wanted to stay true to what the mission was, which was to use this method of growing seafood and growing meats to actually hav…”