For some reason baking bread during the pandemic has become all the rage. So much so, that even scientists are getting in on the fun with bread based scaffolding for growing cells.
Futurism explains:
“A team of scientists took pandemic baking to a new level — by using their doughy creations as a scaffold for lab-grown human cells.
‘It seemed like a fitting project for these times,’ lead author and University of Ottawa researcher Andrew Pelling told New Scientist.
The project, shared on the preprint server BioRxiv, sounds like a bit of a stunt. But if the cells end up being viable for use, using bread as a scaffold instead of collagen could drive down the cost of medical treatments and even lab-grown meat.”
As a big fan of innovative solutions and for that matter bread I’m all in on bread scaffolding as it’s a great idea no matter how you slice it. Hopefully the research continues and this method rises to the top of approaches utilized by scientists going forward.
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