Zhou Guanghong of Nanjing Agricultural University developed the first muscle stem cell cultured meat in China.

Recently, Zhou Guanghong, a professor at Nanjing Agricultural University, developed the first muscle stem cell cultured meat in China using animal stem cells, and the team used the sixth-generation pig muscle stem cells to grow up to 5 grams of cultured meat over a period of about 20 days. On November 21,
, experts from the Chinese Agricultural Society conducted a technical evaluation of the results, saying that there were three breakthroughs in the results: the first separation of high-purity pig muscle stem cells and cow muscle stem cells, breaking the bottleneck of the difficulty of obtaining high-purity single cell group in cultured meat research;
is understood that cultured meat refers to the use of animal muscle stem cells culture, production of edible meat, culturemeat technology is a kind of transformational innovation of meat production mode, is a new animal protein production technology.
the production of cultured meat generally first through live sampling to obtain the animal's muscle tissue, then isolated from the tissue to obtain muscle stem cells and rich in nutrient-rich nutrients in a large number of muscle precursor cells, and finally in the edible 3-dimensional stent material muscle precursor cells differentiation and mature into muscle tissue.
Zhou Guanghong's team has been conducting stem cell research for cultured meat since 2009, separating and purifying high-purity pig muscle stem cells and cow muscle stem cells between 2015 and 2017, and developing stem cell in vitro culture dry maintenance methods.
the birth of the first muscle stem cell culture meat, will make our country enter the forefront of international similar research, the overall technology is in the international advanced level, in which pig and cow muscle stem cell separation purification and dry maintenance technology in the international leading.
according to Zhou Guanghong, the research and development of cell culture meat, through food treatment can form with the natural pork meat similar to the texture, color and other edible quality.
cell culture meat as the future food market, but also through the scale of production technology breakthrough, product safety and other related performance assessment, as well as the production and circulation process of supervision.
Source: Li Chen of China Science Daily.