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Grow Your Own Meat

By Gaia Remerowski on October 5, 2009 1:10 PM |
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With summer over (at least here on the east coast) the last tomatoes and peppers are being harvested from home gardens, apple picking is wrapping up at local orchards and farmers' markets are shutting up shop. 

But never fear, you can now bring the locavore movement indoors with the new Cocoon fish and meat maker.  The sleek pod-like contraption grows meat or fish from simple packets of muscle cells and nutrients. Check it out:


We were on to this idea a while ago during our very first season of NOVA scienceNOW. Check out the segment on 'lab meat' here.

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Gaia Remerowski

Gaia Remerowski left NOVA in 2009. Before that, she served as NOVA’s senior researcher.  Not to be confused with a scientific researcher (it happens), she researched and developed science stories and helped with the editorial content for both NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW. For NOVA, she has worked on shows such as Ghost in Your Genes, a revolution in genetics with far reaching effects on our health; The Big Energy Gamble, about California’s ambitious plan to cut emission; and Car of the Future, a search for the next clean vehicle with the famous ‘Car Talk’ brothers.  For NOVA scienceNOW, she developed stories ranging from secret artificial diamond labs to the science behind the deadly anthrax terrorist attacks.  Prior to joining the research department, she worked on the production team for Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge, a six part series on global health issues narrated by Brad Pitt.  She holds a Master’s degree from Boston University’s Center for Science and Medical Journalism and a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  

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