Edible optical fibers

Cultured meat, produced through tissue engineering technologies, is a fast-evolving global trend, intended to replace meat from slaughtered livestock – to favorably impact major global challenges such as animal welfare, food security, and the grave environmental effects of livestock farming. Essentially, the production of cultured meat is a form of cellular agriculture – in which tissues are obtained from animals, and then grown in the laboratory – into edible meat products. However, cultured meat is still too expensive to be widely marketed to the general public.

To improve and reduce the cost of cultured meat production processes, HIT engineers have joined forces with researchers from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Together they developed novel edible optical fibers – which deliver growth-enhancing light to cultured tissues and can later be consumed with the final product. 

For more information please contact:

Dr. Amir Handelman, +972-52-8225907, handelman@hit.ac.il