Method for producing tissue engineered meat for consumption

• US 6,835,390 B1
• Filed: 11/16/2001
• Issued: 12/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GOOD Meat, Inc. (Eat Just, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Jon Vein
• Inventors: Vein, Jon
• Primary Examiner(s): Naff, David M.
• Application Number:
  US09/991,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 435/174, 435/178, 435/180, 435/395, 435/176, 435/177, 424/422, 424/423, 424/93.7, 424/439, 426/7, 426/802
• US Class Current: 424/439
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 13/00 Meat products; Meat meal; Preparation or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 13/50 Poultry products, e.g. poultry sausages
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 17/00 Food-from-the-sea products; Fish products; Fish meal; Fish-egg substitutes; Preparation or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 5/0062 General methods for three-dimensional culture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 426/802 Simulated animal flesh

Abstract

A non-human tissue engineered meat product and a method for producing such meat product are disclosed. The meat product comprises muscle cells that are grown ex vivo and is used for food consumption. The muscle cells may be grown and attached to a support structure and may be derived from any non-human cells. The meat product may also comprise other cells such as fat cells or cartilage cells, or both, that are grown ex vivo together with the muscle cells.

Claims

1. A method of providing nutrition to a subject comprising providing the subject with a non-human meat product produced by the following steps:

culturing non-human muscle cells ex vivo;

seeding the non-human muscle cells onto a support structure; and

growing the non-human muscle cells to produce said non-human meat product, wherein said non-human meat product is suitable for consumption, and wherein said subject consumes said non-human meat product to obtain nutrition therefrom.

2. The method in claim 1 further comprising the step:

exposing the non-human muscle cells to an electric or oscillating current.

3. The method in claim 1 further comprising the step:

adding nutrients to be incorporated into the non-human meat products.

4. The method in claim 1 wherein the non-human muscle cells are derived from animals selected from the group consisting of mammals, birds, fishes, invertebrates, reptiles, and amphibians.

5. At The method in claim 1 wherein the non-human meat product is substantially free from harmful microbial contamination.

6. The method in claim 1 wherein the non-human muscle cells are skeletal muscle cells.

7. The method in claim 1 wherein the non-human muscle cells are derived from pluripotent or totipotent non-human stem cells.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step:

seeding non-human fat cells onto said support structure,

wherein said non-human fat cells grow in conjunction with said non-human muscle cells to produce said non-human meat product.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein said non-human fat cells are derived from pluripotent or totipotent non-human stem cells.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step:

seeding non-human cartilage cells onto said support structure,

wherein said non-human cartilage cells grow in conjunction with said non-human muscle cells to produce said non-human meat product.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said non-human cartilage cells are derived from pluripotent or totipotent non-human stem cells.