article_snippet: In 2013 Dutch scientists grew ‘cultured beef’ in a lab using cells from a living cow.
article_snippet: Dutch scientist Mark Post believes that artificial meat .
article_snippet: In 2013 Dutch scientists grew ‘cultured beef’ in a lab using cells from a living cow.
article_snippet: Professor Post  spent seven years trying to . turn stem cells into meat, and was first successful with mouse burgers.
article_snippet: Professor Post   then tried to grow pork - producing strips with the rubbery texture . of squid or scallops - before settling on beef.
article_snippet: Last year Mark Post, a professor of tissue engineering at Maastricht University, the Netherlands presented the first lab-grown hamburger .