Surveys have also shown that vegetarians would eat meat if it were grown in a lab, so it could open a lucrative new market for investors.
此外,调查显示,素食者愿意食用实验室里培养出来的肉,这可能会为投资者打开一个利润丰厚的新市场.
The process works by taking a small piece of turkey breast and isolating special stem cells which form muscle fibre. Those cells are then placed in a soup of sugar and amino acids which tricks them into thinking they are still inside the turkey and need to continue dividing.
培养火鸡肉的过程如下：取一小块火鸡胸肉,从中分离出能形成肌肉纤维的特殊干细胞,将其置于含糖和氨基酸的液体中,这些干细胞就会以为自己还在火鸡体内,然后继续分裂出更多细胞.
A single satellite cell can undergo 75 generations of division during three months, which in theory could produce enough muscle to make 20 trillion turkey nuggets.
三个月内,一个卫星细胞能分裂高达75次.理论上,该细胞培养出的肉能做出20万亿块火鸡鸡块.
At present, culture meat is not economically viable. When the first hamburger was created in 2013, it took three months to grow at a cost of £220,000.
由于经济原因,培养肉类目前尚不可行.2013年,第一个合成肉汉堡诞生,培养这块肉耗时三个月,耗资22万英镑.
And creating a turkey-size amount of meat in Professor Mozdziak's lab would currently take more than £20,000 worth of growth serum.
目前,在莫兹达爱克教授的实验室里,想要培养出火鸡那么大的一块肉需要价值2万多英镑的生长血清.
However, the team is now working alongside biomedical engineer David Kaplan at Tufts University, Massachusetts, who is looking for a way to grow cells in 3D, not just flat sheets, which would radically speed up the process and lower the cost.
然而,莫兹达爱克教授的团队正与马萨诸塞州塔夫茨大学的生物医学工程师大卫•卡普兰合作,后者正在寻找培养三维细胞的方法,而不只是平面二维细胞.一旦成功,这项技术将极大提升培养肉类的速度,并大幅降低其成本.
The team predicts that the first meat could be available on shelves by 2030.
该团队预测第一批培养肉将于2030年底前上市.
英文来源：每日电讯报
