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The production of conventional meat contributes to climate change and uses up around 70% of available arable land. Cultured meat is emerging as a potential solution, but presently can be only produced at the pilot scale. Biofabrication technologies developed for biomedical applications could be leveraged to introduce automation and standardization in the production of cultured meat, accelerating its path to market.

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Fig. 1: Overview of the technologies that might enable large-scale cultured meat production.

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  1. These authors contributed equally: Simon Heine, Tilman Ahlfeld.

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  1. Reutlingen Research Institute, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany
    Simon Heine & Franziska B. Albrecht
  2. Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Tilman Ahlfeld & Michael Gelinsky
  3. ZEISS Innovation Hub Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Tilman Ahlfeld
  4. Faculty of Life Sciences, Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany
    Petra J. Kluger

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  2. Tilman Ahlfeld
  3. Franziska B. Albrecht
  4. Michael Gelinsky
  5. Petra J. Kluger

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Heine, S., Ahlfeld, T., Albrecht, F.B. et al. How biofabrication can accelerate cultured meat’s path to market.Nat Rev Mater 9, 83–85 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-024-00650-9

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