That hallowed, ancient process tends to happen in giant, sterile, sealed fermenters, which are not unlike the bioreactors that will be used for culturing meat in industrial quantities. He makes his point by comparing the process of culturing meat cells to another passion of his: brewing beer. He bristles at the phrases вЂњFrankenmeatвЂќ and вЂњlab-grown meatвЂќ, insisting that вЂњtheyвЂ™re not fair or accurateвЂќ. Finless Foods founders Brian Wyrwas (left) and Mike Selden. вЂFish cell culture was really not a thingвЂ™. вЂњWeвЂ™re small but weвЂ™re moving very quickly, and so are the investors,вЂќ says Selden, with the robotic urgency of someone who dedicates every waking hour to their vocation.

Human cell cultures - we do that all the time and thereвЂ™s all sorts of papers on animal culture, but for fish, Brian had to invent a protocol to do that.вЂќ Yet by the end of our first conversation I am invited to taste their first prototype. Selden and WyrwasвЂ™s lab was only established in March 2017, and as Selden says, вЂњFish cell culture was really not a thing. Meanwhile, Hampton Creek foods (also in San Francisco) are boldly promising they will be selling cultured poultry as soon as the end of next year. It was dry and anaemic, but, says Post, вЂњit showed it could be done.вЂќ Three years later, San Francisco startup Memphis Meats delivered a succulent beef meatball, following up this year with fried chicken and duck a lвЂ™orange. In 2013, the godfather of what is also known as cultured or in-vitro meat, Professor Mark Post from Maastricht University, unveiled the first ever cultured beefburger - no livestock required. It was founded in 2016 by university buddies Mike Selden and Brian Wyrwas, bright-eyed biochemists in their mid-20s who are on a mission to save the oceans and bring affordable, contaminant-free fish to the masses.ДЇinless Foods is the first firm to enter the race to take cellular agriculture вЂ“ meat grown outside of animals вЂ“ to market with marine, as opposed to land animals. One such workspace houses Finless Foods, a company growing fish flesh in their laboratory, aiming to feed the 5,000 and then some without needing to kill a single animal. Grand arts and civic buildings sit incongruously among office blocks, huddles of the cityвЂ™s homeless and hip shared workspaces in which tech entrepreneurs and scientists plug away at their ideas to change the world.

T he broad avenues that lie south of Market Street in San Francisco are dotted with the headquarters of famous tech firms, from Uber and Airbnb to BitTorrent and Dropbox.

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