MeaTech printed steaks

Israeli startup MeaTech has managed to produce what it says is the biggest steak in the lab to date.

A cultured bioprinter steak, composed primarily of fat and muscle cells, weighs exactly 104g. Manufacturer MeaTech in Ness Ziona, Israel, believes it is the largest of its kind to date. The cells used to cook the steak were produced using a proprietary process that first isolates and expands bovine stem cells from tissue samples. After reaching sufficient cell mass, the stem cells were turned into bioink and printed as a steak structure using a 3D bioprinter. According to the company, the printed product was then sent to a maturation incubator, where the printed stem cells differentiated into fat and muscle cells. This formed respectively the fat and muscle tissue for the MeaTech steak.

MeaTech 3D was founded in 2019 and operates internationally. The company is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market and has operations in Ness Zion, Israel and Antwerp, Belgium. The company's management believes that meat culture technologies have "significant potential to improve meat production, simplify the meat supply chain, and provide consumers with a range of new product offerings." MeaTech is working on developing cell lines for beef, pork and chicken. The company specializes in the development of premium meat products.