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In Vitro-Cultured Meat Production. (2005) Tissue Engineering 11:p659
Would you like some test tube fries with that?
(Found by Alex Lane)

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Tissue Engineering 11 (2005) p659

Commentary: In Vitro-Cultured Meat Production

P.D. EDELMAN, D.C. MCFARLAND, V.A. MIRONOV, and J.G. MATHENY.

Although meat has enjoyed sustained popularity as a foodstuff, consumers have expressed growing concern over some consequences of meat consumption and production. These include nutrition-related diseases, foodborne illnesses, resource use and pollution, and use of farm animals. Here we review the possibility of producing edible animal muscle (i.e., meat) in vitro, using tissue-engineering techniques. Such “cultured meat” could enjoy some health and environmental advantages over conventional meat, and the techniques required to produce it are not beyond imagination. To tissue engineers this subject is of interest as cultured meat production is an application of tissue-engineering principles whose technical challenges may be less formidable than those facing many clinical applications.

How Baseball Outfielders Determine Where to Run to Catch Fly Balls. (1995) Science 268:p569
In which we learn that apparently, there can be a scientific basis for 7 figured salaries. Next up, how to objectively judge figure skating.
(Found by David Ng)

Chewing gum can produce context-dependent effects upon memory. (2004) Appetite 43: 207–210
If only these results were published when I was in Grade Two.
(Found by Alex Lane)

Potential Effects of the Next 100 Billion Hamburgers Sold by McDonald's. (2005) American Journal of Preventive Medicine 28(4) :379-381
Well fed researchers, choose hamburger B.
(Found by Alex Lane)

The all pervasive principle of repetitious recurrence governs not only coding sequence construction but also human endeavor in musical composition. (1986) Immunogenetics 24(2): p71
In which Chopin, the bastard, apparently pilfered his material from genetic sequences.
(Found by David Ng)

Over the last ten years Alex has taken a keen interest in current events and issues in science/technology. This enthusiasm has been fueled partly by contributions at Government , Academic and Biotech institutions. He hopes that these articles highlight his interest in the unusual, and point out that science is as easily defined as we would like.