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83: These Japanese Bio-Hackers Are Growing Affordable Meat in A Lab – Shojinmeat
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:37:09
Publish Date: 2017-04-24 20:14:17
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The episode These Japanese Bio-Hackers Are Growing Affordable Meat in A Lab – Shojinmeat appeared first on DisruptingJapan.com.

Growing our meat in a lab or factory has been a science fiction staple for decades, but much like jetpacks, it has never quite worked out in practice — at least not at scale. Yuki Hanyu and his team at Shojinmeat, however, are changing that.

Actually, scientists have been growing muscle tissue in labs for more than 100 years, but Shojinmeat has developed techniques that bring the cost down to less than one 1,000th of traditional approaches. Now, that still leaves it too expensive for most commercial applications, but Yuki explains how his team (and others) will bring the costs down into the commercial range very soon.

We also talk about both why Japanese life-sciences startups have such a hard time raising money in Japan and how Shojinmeat found a way to make the system work for them.

It’s a great discussion, and I think you’ll enjoy it.

Show Notes for Startups

  • How do you grow meat in the Lab?
  • Why cellular agriculture doesn’t get funding
  • Is lab-grown meat kosher?
  • Combining open research and patent protection
  • How to bring down the cost of cultured meat
  • Solving the taste problem
  • How cultured meat will become available

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Transcript from Japan

Disrupting Japan, episode 83.

Welcome to Disrupting Japan, straight talk from Japan’s most successful entrepreneurs. I’m Tim Romero and thanks for joining me.

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