Aleph, which grows meat directly from cattle cells, hopes to set up consortium with space agencies; company says it wants to 'push the boundaries' of its production process

Experiment on International Space Station part of effort to create lab-grown 'slaughter free' meat and aims to show it can be done without access to Earth's resources

Israeli startup, which uses animal cells to grow tissue for real meat cuts, gets money boost from VC and strategic investors from US, Singapore, Israel and UK