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WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU Lab-grown meat could bring an end to unnecessary animal deaths. A new research paper just brought that dream one step closer. A new study published in the  journal  Scientific Reports  has taken us one step closer to the dream of animal-free meat. (And, no, in case your mind immediately goes to the 1973 sci-fi movie  Soylent Green , it ain’t people, either!) “What the paper describes is research designed to generate muscle from a newly established pig stem-cell line, rather that from primary cells taken directly from a pig,” co-author Dr. Nicholas Genovese, a stem-cell biologist (and vegetarian), told Digital Trends. “This entailed understanding the biology of relatively uncharacterized and recently-derived porcine induced pluripotent stem cell lines. What conditions support cell growth, survival and differentiation? These are all questions I had to figure out in the lab before the cells could be turned into muscle.” As you can imagine, thi...

A golden retriever has been reunited with his family after being kidnapped and sold on Ebay to an unsuspecting dog lover. Unidentified livestock professionals are also stealing cows in eastern Germany. The floppy-eared, seven-year-old Luca was returned to his grateful family six days after disappearing near Theodor-Heuss-Platz in east Munich, the local German paper "Merkur" reported on Tuesday. The dog's return marked a happy ending to one of a series of dog abductions that has plagued the region for over a year and which police attribute to a single individual who remains at large. Six day of suspense Luca's family notified the local police and the Munich animal shelter when Luca failed to return home hours after giving his owner the slip on Friday, February 3. "He usually makes his own way home" if he runs off after something to eat or in pursuit of a female dog, Luca's owner Ewa R. told Merkur. "But this time we waited in vain. We were despe...