The Dutch company Meatable has presented Opti-Ox, a technology that accelerates the conversion of stem cells into muscle tissue and fat. The process reduces the production time of cultivated meat to just eight days, a breakthrough that aims to compete with traditional livestock farming in terms of efficiency and scale.
How express cell engineering works 🧬
Opti-Ox optimizes the cellular microenvironment through a controlled oxygenation system that mimics the biological signals of natural development. Stem cells differentiate directly into myocytes and adipocytes without the need for complex scaffolding. This eliminates intermediate stages, achieving a texture and composition similar to conventional meat in a third of the time of other methods.
The chicken that grows faster than delivery 🐔
While you wait for your takeout, this meat would have already gone through the lab, packaging, and be ready for the pan. The downside is that, for now, they only produce it in snack-sized Petri dishes. If you order a breast, you might get your Uber Eats bill before the cell culture arrives.