Category: Cellular Agriculture
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Wildtype, the San Francisco-based startup specializing in cultivated salmon, announced today that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign for cell-cultured lox that will ship directly to consumers’ homes. The Kickstarter campaign appears to be not only the first rewards-based Kickstarter campaign for a cultivated animal product, but also the first direct-to-consumer offering built around delivering…
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Cultivated meat companies spent much of the last decade promising to help fend off the climate crisis while also helping to wean the world off animal agriculture. However, as the industry transitioned from bench scale to pilot facilities and eventually to scaled manufacturing, costs increased and timelines lengthened. This shift happened just as the venture…
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Vow, the Australian-based startup making foie gras and parfait from the cultivated cells of Japanese quail, announced a couple of big milestones this week, including what it claims to be the biggest ever production run of cultivated meat after harvesting 1,200 pounds of Japanese quail in a single week. This milestone was achieved using the…
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Three years after announcing a joint venture, Givaudan, Bühler Group, and Migros have finally opened the doors to The Cultured Hub, a cutting-edge biotech facility dedicated to cellular agriculture production in Kemptthal, Switzerland. Initially introduced in 2021 as the Cultured Food Innovation Hub with the stated mission of accelerating the development and market penetration of…
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Cultivated meat companies have struggled over the past year as they try to figure out how to do something that’s never been done before: grow meat in large quantities in big metal vats. Part of the challenge is figuring out how to grow the meat cells. The technology to do this has been borrowed from…
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Selling cultivated meat in Florida is about to become a second-degree misdemeanor. That’s because this week, the Florida legislature voted to pass a bill restricting the commercial sale of meat grown using cellular agriculture. The bill (SB 1084), which passed with a vote count of 86 Yays to 27 Nays, now heads to the desk…
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Daphna Heffetz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wanda Fish, a cellular agriculture company aimed at producing cell-based fish meat, starting with bluefin tuna. We talked about making cell-based fish entirely out of plant materials, the problems our oceans face today, and why Wanda Fish will only sell to high end restaurants to start. J:…
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Now that the cultivated meat industry has achieved the long-awaited milestone of going on sale to consumers in the US, the focus will increasingly turn to whether it’s possible to make meat outside the animal more affordably. After all, it’s cool to make meat using a process that sounds straight out of pages of a…
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Today marks a big day for cultivated meat as two companies, UPSIDE Foods and Good Meat, announced today that they had received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to sell their cultivated meat products to consumers. According to UPSIDE, the news came in the form of notification from the USDA that they have…
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Today Extracellular, a cultivated meat-focused contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced the availability of low-cost and license-free cell banks for research to cultivated meat developers in the UK. The banks of primary cells will be made available to early-stage cultivated meat researchers and startups via funding from StartupUK and through a collaboration with Mutus,…
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Last week, GFI published their annual state of the industry reports for the three major alt-protein technology ‘pillars’, plant-based meat, fermentation, and cultivated meat (and teased a fourth one). Like many, I find the reports invaluable, as they are a good synthesis of the current scientific, regulatory, investment, and product evolution across the spaces. The…
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This week, a group of Japanese academic and corporate partners announced the creation of the Consortium for Future Innovation by Cultured Meat, a new group that aims to promote “concrete efforts for social implementation of edible cultured meat manufacturing technology using 3D bioprinting.” The group, which includes the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Shimadzu…
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