An even better alternative would perhaps just be creating an immortalized satellite cell line (Figure 9). Scientists have figured out ways to artificially immortalize cell lines through the addition of viral elements that alter cell cycle checkpoints such as SV40 or over-expression of telomerase [51].  Thus, addition of these factors to an isolated myosatellite cell line can lead to an “off-the-shelf” immortalized line which can be banked and shared among researchers or companies.  Moreover, researchers can create multiple cell lines and select the ones with the best characteristics in terms of cell division, protein expression, taste, etc, to further optimize the production pipeline and final product.  This is being done at North Carolina State University, where scientists have immortalized turkey cell lines that led to the creation of a small turkey nugget in just 2 weeks after thawing [52], indicative of a huge decrease in the already sped-up time that it takes to grow a full sized chicken {Figure 10).  In the future, meat production companies will therefore likely have stocks of optimized immortalized cell lines for the quick production of “off-the-shelf” meat of a specific animal, taste, or texture, which will lead to the limiting or complete elimination of repetitive biopsies.