Editor's Choice: A path to affordable cultivated meat

Cultured meat is a promising alternative to conventional meat, offering potential benefits in environmental conservation, resource efficiency and animal welfare — if only it were a cost-effective alternative for a critical mass of consumers. Although the cost of cultivated meat has dropped to $63 per kilogram from $2.3 million per kilogram in 2013, it remains prohibitively expensive and confined to small-scale production.

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