Decellularized Spinach: An Edible Scaffold for Laboratory-Grown Meat

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Who: Jordan D. Jones, Alex S. Rebello, Glenn R. Gaudette

Published: March 20, 2021

Where: Food Bioscience

Key Takeaway: Decellularized spinach provides a scaffold for cultured meat with a natural complex vascular network to support cell growth and differentiation. However, cell alignment was inconsistent, which could limit its potential as a scaffold.

Research Topics: scaffold

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Jordan D. Jones et al. explore the possibility of using decellularized spinach as a scaffold for cultured meat. Their study compares cell growth, differentiation, and alignment of bovine satellite cells on decellularized spinach compared to a control surface. Jones et al. find that decellularized spinach scaffold improves cell growth and differentiation. However, results on cell alignment are too varied to conclude how the spinach impacts alignment.

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Jones, J. D., Rebello, A. S., & Gaudette, G. R. (2021). Decellularized spinach: An edible scaffold for laboratory-grown meat. Food Bioscience, 41, 100986. doi:10.1016/j.fbio.2021.100986

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