Scientific, sustainability and regulatory challenges of cultured meat

MJ Post, S Levenberg, DL Kaplan, N Genovese, J Fu… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular agriculture is an emerging branch of biotechnology that aims to address issues
associated with the environmental impact, animal welfare and sustainability challenges of …

[HTML][HTML] Vascular tissue engineering: progress, challenges, and clinical promise

HHG Song, RT Rumma, CK Ozaki, ER Edelman… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Although the clinical demand for bioengineered blood vessels continues to rise, current
options for vascular conduits remain limited. The synergistic combination of emerging …

Textured soy protein scaffolds enable the generation of three-dimensional bovine skeletal muscle tissue for cell-based meat

T Ben-Arye, Y Shandalov, S Ben-Shaul, S Landau… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Cell-based meat (CBM) production is a promising technology that could generate meat
without the need of animal agriculture. The generation of tissue requires a three …

Neural cell integration into 3D bioprinted skeletal muscle constructs accelerates restoration of muscle function

JH Kim, I Kim, YJ Seol, IK Ko, JJ Yoo, A Atala… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A bioengineered skeletal muscle construct that mimics structural and functional
characteristics of native skeletal muscle is a promising therapeutic option to treat extensive …

Biodegradable scaffold with built-in vasculature for organ-on-a-chip engineering and direct surgical anastomosis

B Zhang, M Montgomery, MD Chamberlain, S Ogawa… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
We report the fabrication of a scaffold (hereafter referred to as AngioChip) that supports the
assembly of parenchymal cells on a mechanically tunable matrix surrounding a perfusable …

Tissue engineering for clean meat production

T Ben-Arye, S Levenberg - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Increasing public awareness of foodborne illnesses, factory farming, and the ecological
footprint of the meat industry, has generated the need for animal-free meat alternatives. In …

Macrophages of diverse phenotypes drive vascularization of engineered tissues

PL Graney, S Ben-Shaul, S Landau, A Bajpai… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Macrophages are key contributors to vascularization, but the mechanisms behind their
actions are not understood. Here, we show that diverse macrophage phenotypes have …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional human iPSC-derived artificial skeletal muscles model muscular dystrophies and enable multilineage tissue engineering

SM Maffioletti, S Sarcar, ABH Henderson, I Mannhardt… - Cell Reports, 2018 - cell.com
Generating human skeletal muscle models is instrumental for investigating muscle
pathology and therapy. Here, we report the generation of three-dimensional (3D) artificial …

Materials roles for promoting angiogenesis in tissue regeneration

JH Lee, P Parthiban, GZ Jin, JC Knowles… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enabling angiogenesis is critical for the success of tissue repair therapies and the fate of
tissue-engineered constructs. Although many biochemical signaling molecules have been …

Bioengineered constructs combined with exercise enhance stem cell-mediated treatment of volumetric muscle loss

M Quarta, M Cromie, R Chacon, J Blonigan… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is associated with loss of skeletal muscle function, and current
treatments show limited efficacy. Here we show that bioconstructs suffused with genetically …