Research in Brazil develops fish without bones

Can you imagine eating a fish with no bones? This is already possible and without having to remove them in the cooking or filleting process. A startup based in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), managed to make the first bioproduction of laboratory-grown fish meat in Brazil. The work is initially developed with the species of grouper, grouper, sea bass and sole and opens space for the production of fish in the laboratory on an industrial scale, eliminating the slaughter of animals. It works like this: from the biopsy of commercial species, stem cells were obtained and cultivated, which served as a source of cell lines, which have a high capacity for reproduction. Afterwards, the best nutrients and laboratory cultivation conditions for its growth were defined. The cells were then fed into bioreactors to form the fish meat protein biomass. The method was developed at the Rio de Janeiro Cell Bank, located in Duque de Caxias, which will carry out the entire process. The expectation is to develop a ...