Mark Post
If 2011 Speaker
Mark Post is also Professor of Angionesis in Tissue Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His main research interests are vascular biology and tissue engineering of blood vessels and skeletal muscle. He is also the Chairman of the Dutch Society of Physiology

Meet the new meat

Professor of Vascular Physiology at Maastricht University who works on "lab meat"

Mark Post
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'A vegetarian in a hummer is much less damaging for the environment than a meat-eater on a bicycle'. Today's techniques for rearing livestock are unsustainable, particularly if global meat consumption doubles - as it's predicted to do - by 2050. Artificial meat will be the answer. Using stem cell technology to grow tissue in labs, we will be able to control variables and make the process much more efficient, environmentally friendly and healthy. It won't be cheap to begin with though. The first 'lab-burger' will cost £250,000.

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