A cooked piece of cultivated chicken breast created at the UPSIDE Foods plant, where lab-grown meat is cultivated in January 2023.

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If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages

It didn’t get much attention when U.S. President Joe Biden launched a biomanufacturing initiative last September. But it should have. Biomanufacturing is about harnessing nature’s factories – cells – to make just about anything. That includes food. As Biden pointed out, biomanufacturing could boost food security. How? By cultivating meat. Having a roast for dinner