Are you into that catch 22 situation where you love to eat meat and still not happy about the animal slaughter? Now, you don’t need to get worried. If the promises of the startup Memphis Meats are to be believed, the meats grown into lab could soon hit the market. One of the founders of the Memphis Meats, Uma Valeti who hails from India, is a cardiologist by profession. He was also disturbed by the animal slaughter happening all across the world. He was especially affected by the food-borne illness and contamination at the slaughterhouses.
1 Uma Veleti Has a Lot of Conviction in His Idea of Growing Meats in Lab
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Valeti got the idea of growing meat in a lab when he saw molecular biologist named Eric Schulze plucking a petri dish from the incubator. Schulze asked Valeti to have a look inside the petri dish with the help of a microscope. Schulze prompted Valeti to locate muscle-forming cells which were taken from a duck. The cells had strands of translucent spaghetti, with bright dots—nuclei.
Schulze then takes out another petri dish. He indicated towards scattered spaghetti strands which were shorter, fatter tubes, like gummy worms. He said that those were mature muscle cells. He further explained that in the next few days, the cells will join together will join together in long chains and will become multicellular myotubes. Schulze said that they'll start spontaneously contracting. After hearing all this, Valeti’s eyes lit up with all kinds of excitement. He was enthused by the idea of meat without animals. His mind was going places after encountering the lab experience.
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