The Singapore government is investing in lab-grown fish and meat as part of its efforts towards ramping up domestic food production, reports The New Paper.
The effort is getting a boost from the Government's Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2020 plan, under which $144 million (€128.2 million) is going into food-related research, including sustainable urban food production, future foods and food safety science and innovation.
To make meat, stem cells extracted from chickens, cows, fish and pigs will be grown and multiplied in bioreactors, and eventually undergo tissue engineering to make whole meat cuts, said researchers.
