Hoxton Farms grows animal fat for meat substitutes

Last year, synthetic biologist, Jamilly and mathematician, Steele co-founded Hoxton Farms, a start-up dedicated to growing cell-based, sustainable animal fat. The co-founders take a harmless biopsy from an animal and establish a culture or cell line based on stem cells. With different nutrients, or culture conditions, stem cells are able to mature into any cell type, including fat cells. A sample of a cell line is introduced into a bioreactor, a vat of culture medium where the cells proliferate exponentially into fat cells. At the end of the process, they can be harvested as purified animal fat.