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Tobacco has new role to play in cultivated meat production - Israeli biotech says

Jobick Okoth at his tobacco farm in Uriri. [Caleb KIngwara, Standard]

 

Israeli startup BioBetter is repurposing tobacco plants to produce ingredients that promote cell growth in a step that could remove one of the biggest obstacles to large-scale lab meat manufacturing.

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