Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com - @BednarChuck If you were intrigued by laboratory-grown hamburgers when they were first created by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands last year, but were put off by the thought of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for one, we’ve got some good news for you! According to CNET, the cost of making a burger from what Professor Post refers to as “cultured meat” was a steep $273,000 (€250,000) a little over a year ago, but those costs could soon fall to just $30 per pound ($65 per kilogram, or about $9.10 per 140-gram patty) in the near future. Bringing lab-grown Big Macs one step closer to fruition That reduction in cost depends on the production of lab-grown beef production being scaled up drastically, Post told Australia's ABC News on Friday. Even though each burger contains about 20,000 thing strands of lab-grown tissue, Post estimated that up to 10,000 kilos (11 tons) of meat could be produced from just a single small piece of muscle using his method.
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