$325,000 Burger Is The Future Of Meat Production  Get the
WebProNews Newsletter: [ Science]  Would you pay $325,000 for a
burger? Probably not. It’s hard to get anybody to pay more than
a dollar for a burger these days, but one researcher hopes that
its $325,000 burger will one day be cheap enough for the mass
market.  The New York Times has a fascinating report on Dr.
Post, a researcher that is attempting to make the first in vitro
hamburger. In other words, he is growing edible beef in a petri
dish. It’s real beef too as it’s grown from actual beef cells
collected from cows.  Dr. Post and his research team at
Maastricht University in the Netherlands are almost ready to
present the first lab grown burger to the world. It’s comprised
of 20,000 strips of lab grown muscle tissue combined together to
form a single burger. The cost of those 20,000 strips is the
aforementioned $325,000 provided by an anonymous donor with the
final result being prepared for an event in London.  So, why
exactly are we creating “fake