The need to produce immortal, food-relevant cell lines is one of the most pressing challenges of cellular agriculture, the field which seeks to produce meat and other animal products via tissue engineering and synthetic biology.
Immortal cell lines have a long and complicated story, from the first recognized immortal human cell lines taken from Henrietta Lacks, to today, where they are used to assay toxicity and produce therapeutics, to the future, where they could be used to create meat without harming an animal.
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Dr. Shawn Baker MD is an orthopedic surgeon, international speaker, best-selling author, and world champion athlete. He is a leading authority on nutritional therapy and raising awareness about how it affects chronic diseases, and the CMO of Revero.