Scotland's first Haggis grown in lab attempted by scientists

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Burns Night enthusiasts could be in for a treat next year as lab grown haggis may be ready to serve up in 2023. Roslin Technologies, an innovative agritech company based in the Midlothian Science Zone, is supplying companies across three continents with all the components and instructions to grow animal protein in a tank.

The firm is a spin-off from the University of Edinburgh with links to the Roslin Institute, which reared Dolly the Sheep - the world's first cloned mammal.It supplies stem cells, collected from live animals, and instructions for growing them inside a bioreactor to cultivated meat start-up companies across the world, which can grow them in Olympic-sized swimming pools within 63 days of receiving a package.The world's first lab-grown beef burger was served up in 2013, and a team of 24 experts from eight countries now hope to branch out to a lab grown Burns Night supper, as well as sushi, and more conventional meat products like sausages using a 3D printer.Ernst Van Orsouw, who took over as chief executive last summer, believes artificially created meat offers a more sustainable alternative to traditionally reared equivalents but will never completely replace agriculture.The first lab grown beef burger took scientists in the Netherlands two years to create and came with a $300,000 price tag.Industrial meat production is the single biggest cause of deforestation worldwide, with vast swaths of woodlands being cut down to make way for pastures or crops used as feed and causes excess methane gas in the ozone layer, contributing to global warming.Cultivated meat scores much higher, with no need for massive tracts of land or medicines - it can be grown in urban centres, near consumers and is produced in a