Israel: scientific breakthrough that will revolutionize the cultured meat market

Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with the Israeli company Believer Meats, announced a scientific breakthrough that could transform the global market for cultivated meat. In a study published in the prestigious journal Nature Food, they demonstrated that cattle cells can spontaneously acquire the ability to divide indefinitely—a form of "cellular immortality"—without the need for genetic engineering or becoming cancerous cells. This finding overcomes a scientific and regulatory obstacle that until now had limited the industrial production of affordable cultivated beef, and positions Israel as a global knowledge hub in the field. Until today, the prevailing view in international research held that obtaining stable bovine cell lines required genetically modifying the cells, unlike in chickens, where a similar process had already been achieved. The new study challenges this assumption. Professor Yaakov Nahmias, leader of the research team, ...