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Lab-grown meat uses spinach ‘skeletons’ for greener process

Researchers with Boston College have successfully used spinach ‘skeletons’ as scaffolding to grow bovine cells in a lab, paving the way for a greener, cheaper method to produce beef. 

The process involved stripping a spinach leaf down to nothing but its circulatory system, which the researchers refer to as its “skeleton.”