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Over the course of two years, cultured human nerve cells multiplied and organized themselves into a functioning organoid capable of generating electrical activity.

For example, Japan’s invention of cultured pearls led to the decline of the UAE’s natural-pearl trading industry in the early 1900s, he notes.

Each little sphere is essentially a tiny, lab-grown mini-brain, made out of living stem cells which have been cultured to become clusters of neurons and supporting cells - these are the “organoids”.

"For beef, it is quite viable for cultured meat to come out on top," he argues.

But according to Stamets, “to say that rice substrate, being cultured by mycelium as it grows through it, is just rice, inert or a filler are lies.”