How to Grow Animal Cells Without a Live Animal

Today, you’ll learn about some incredible new surfing technology that makes the sport possible even if you don’t live near the ocean, why the lab-grown meat industry needs to be beefed up to solve food system problems, and how the link between multiple sclerosis and the Epstein-Barr virus is leading to potential treatments for the illusive and damaging MS.

Turns out you don’t need an ocean to surf.

• “The innovative surfing tech making waves” by Richard Bainbridge
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60689501
• “Reports on How Things Work: Hydrofoils” by MIT
  • https://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/hydrofoil/hydrofoil.html

Fake meat. Yum.

• “Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story” by Joe Fassler
  • https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
• “Want People to Eat Less Meat? Fake Burgers Probably Won’t Cut It.” by Charlie Mitchell
  • https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/08/want-people-to-eat-less-meat-fake-burgers-probably-wont-cut-it/
• “The Myth of Cultured Meat: A Review” by Sghaier Chriki and Jean-Francois Hocquette
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00007/full

Sharing is caring. Especially when it comes to medical treatments.

• “MS Reversed by Transplanted Immune Cells That Fight Epstein-Barr Virus” by Michael Le Page
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2315586-ms-reversed-by-transplanted-immune-cells-that-fight-epstein-barr-virus/
• “MS Symptoms Improved by Treatment That Attacks Glandular Fever Virus” by Alice Klein
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2186387-ms-symptoms-improved-by-treatment-that-attacks-glandular-fever-virus/
• “Molecular Signature of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in MS Brain Lesions” by Monica A. Moreno, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000000466
• “Clonally Expanded B Cells in Multiple Sclerosis Bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM” by Tobias V. Lanz, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04432-7
• “Types of MS” by National Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Types-of-MS

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