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Artificial meat made in space coming to a supermarket near you

Mark Post, a professor at Maastricht University, holds the world's first lab-grown beef burger.

Creating meat from cells is no longer the realm of science fiction: a Russian cosmonaut did it aboard the International Space Station, and it is just a matter of time before these products arrive in supermarkets.

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