Cultivated meat, also known as cultured or cell-based meat, is meat produced directly from cultured animal cells rather than from a whole animal. Cultivated meat and seafood have been proposed as a means of mitigating the substantial harms associated with current production methods, including damage to the environment, antibiotic resistance, food security challenges, poor animal welfare, and-in the case of seafood-overfishing and ecological damage associated with fishing and aquaculture. Because biomedical tissue engineering research, from which cultivated meat draws a great deal of inspiration, has thus far been conducted almost exclusively in mammals, cultivated seafood suffers from a lack of established protocols for producing complex tissues in vitro. At the same time, fish such as the zebrafish Danio rerio have been widely used as model organisms in developmental biology. Therefore, many of the mechanisms and signaling pathways involved in the formation of muscle, fat, and other relevant tissue are relatively well understood for this species. The same processes are understood to a lesser degree in aquatic invertebrates. This review discusses the differentiation and maturation of meat-relevant cell types in aquatic species and makes recommendations for future research aimed at recapitulating these processes to produce cultivated fish and shellfish.
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Title
Differentiation and Maturation of Muscle and Fat Cells in Cultivated Seafood: Lessons from Developmental Biology
Authors
Claire Bomkamp (Corresponding Author) - The Good Food Institute
Lisa Musgrove (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Diana M. C. Marques (Author) - University of Lisbon
Goncalo F. Fernando (Author) - The Good Food Institute
Frederico C. Ferreira (Author) - University of Lisbon
Elizabeth A. Specht (Author) - The Good Food Institute
Publication details
Marine Biotechnology, Vol.25, pp.1-29
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
Date published
2023
DOI
10.1007/s10126-022-10174-4
ISSN
1436-2236; 1436-2228
PMID
36374393
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