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Chicken nuggets grown in lab for first time

Japanese scientists have grown chicken nuggets in a lab in a world first.

They invented a process that mimics blood vessels to allow cells to grow in layers of muscle tissue, in a breakthrough that could finally lead to realistic engineered meat.

Currently, lab-grown chicken is made using sheets of cells less than 1mm thick that then need to be processed into something resembling meat, or minced, leading to an unrealistic texture.

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