Engineered comestible meat
First Claim
1. A method of forming engineered meat, the method comprising:
- preparing a plurality of multicellular bodies comprising a plurality of non-human myocytes cohered to one another;
laying more than one multicellular body adjacently onto a planar support substrate;
fusing said multicellular bodies to form a first planar layer;
stacking about 20 to about 80 additional planar layers onto the first planar layer; and
fusing said layers to form a volume of engineered meat by culturing the stacked planar layers to fuse the planar layers while the planar layers in an inner region of the volume die, so that the majority of cells in the volume have died after fusion between the layers is at least partially complete;
wherein the engineered meat is comestible.
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Abstract
Provided are engineered meat products formed as a plurality of at least partially fused layers, wherein each layer comprises at least partially fused multicellular bodies comprising non-human myocytes and wherein the engineered meat is comestible. Also provided are multicellular bodies comprising a plurality of non-human myocytes that are adhered and/or cohered to one another; wherein the multicellular bodies are arranged adjacently on a nutrient-permeable support substrate and maintained in culture to allow the multicellular bodies to at least partially fuse to form a substantially planar layer for use in formation of engineered meat. Further described herein are methods of forming engineered meat utilizing said layers.
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12 Claims
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1. A method of forming engineered meat, the method comprising:
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preparing a plurality of multicellular bodies comprising a plurality of non-human myocytes cohered to one another; laying more than one multicellular body adjacently onto a planar support substrate; fusing said multicellular bodies to form a first planar layer; stacking about 20 to about 80 additional planar layers onto the first planar layer; and fusing said layers to form a volume of engineered meat by culturing the stacked planar layers to fuse the planar layers while the planar layers in an inner region of the volume die, so that the majority of cells in the volume have died after fusion between the layers is at least partially complete; wherein the engineered meat is comestible. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of forming a comestible engineered meat product, the method comprising:
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forming a plurality of planar layers by adjacently positioning a plurality of multicellular bodies in a plane, wherein each multicellular body comprises a plurality of cohered non-human myocytes; culturing each of the planar layers at least until the plurality of multicellular bodies within each layer have at least partially fused; stacking more than about 50 of the plurality of at least partially fused planar layers to form a layered volume of engineered meat; and culturing the stacked planar layers to fuse the planar layers while the planar layers in an inner region of the volume die, so that the majority of cells in the volume have died after fusion between layers is at least partially complete.
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