Chitin: Providing Structure and Biofunction to Cell-Cultured Meat

Chitin- and chitosan-based scaffolds show promise for improving both the scalability and nutritional value of cell-cultured meats

Cell-cultured meat — meat grown directly from animal cells rather than harvested from slaughtered livestock — although still in its technological infancy, is attracting increasing attention in both popular culture and the scientific community. Driven by sustainability issues associated with conventional meat production, scientists are now beginning to tackle some of the key…