‘Meaty rice’? South Korean Professor Aims to Change Global Protein

Mon Jun 17 2024
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In a small laboratory in Seoul, a team of South Korean scientists are injecting cultured beef cells into individual grains of rice, in a process they hope could revolutionise how the world eats.

From helping prevent famines to feeding astronauts in space, team leader and professor Hong Jin-kee believes his new so-called “meaty rice” could become an eco-friendly, ethnical way for people to get their protein. AFP

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