Method for scalable skeletal muscle lineage specification and cultivation

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to methods for enhancing cultured meat production, such as livestock-autonomous meat production. In certain aspects, the meat is any metazoan tissue or cell-derived comestible product intended for use as a comestible food or nutritional component by humans, companion animals, domesticated or captive animals whose carcasses are intended for comestible use, service animals, conserved animal species, animals used for experimental purposes, or cell cultures.

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[0001] Cross references to related applications [0002] This application claims the benefits of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61 / 962,068 filed on October 30, 2013, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. [0003] Incorporation of Sequence Listing [0004] The electronically filed ASCII text file (name 52553_136621_ST25.txt; size: 2,962 bytes; and creation date: October 30, 2014) submitted with this application is incorporated by reference in its entirety. In this article. [0005] Statement on Federally Funded Research and Development [0006] The present invention was completed with government support under the license number R01HD069979 / 00032722 granted by the National Institutes of Health. The government has certain rights in this invention. Background technique [0007] The present disclosure relates to methods for enhancing cultivated meat production such as autonomous meat production by livestock. "Cultivated meat" (such as in vitro cell culture, tiss...

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Problems solved by technology

Thus, current approaches do not adequately address the animal dependence of cultured meat production to realize the conceptual promise of "cultured meat" and provide a commercially profitable product

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