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Last news (more)
- Impact Venture Capital Firm Clear Current Capital Launches Fund ll
- Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes and Potential Acceptance toward Artificial Meat – PubMed
- Bioethical considerations of cell-cultured meat – PubMed
- Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat
- Nourish Ingredients Raises $11M for Fermented Plant-Based Fats
- MeaTech Announces Closing of $25 Million U.S. Initial Public Offering of American Depositary Shares on Nasdaq Capital Market
- What’s the carbon footprint of lab-grown meat?
- Cultured Meat Startup Meatable Raises $47 Million Series A
- Bluu Biosciences raises cash to become Europe’s first purveyor of lab-grown salmon, trout and carp
- Investor Interest in Meat Alternative Biotechs Booms
- Researchers report new approach to cultured meat
- Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes and Potential Acceptance toward Artificial Meat
- VitroLabs – Tissue Engineering Lead/Senior Scientist
- New Food Invest – online – 18 March 2021
- The Future is Female: Women Dominate Food Tech in Asia Pacific
- LCA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenarios
Compagnies and key players (more)
- Nourish Ingredients Raises $11M for Fermented Plant-Based FatsAustralian startup Nourish Ingredients, which makes plant-based fats, announced today that it has raised $11 million (USD) in initial funding. The round […]
- MeaTech Announces Closing of $25 Million U.S. Initial Public Offering of American Depositary Shares on Nasdaq Capital MarketMeaTech received net proceeds from this offering of approximately $21.9 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable […]
- Cultured Meat Startup Meatable Raises $47 Million Series ADutch cultured meat startup Meatable announced today that it has raised a $47 million Series A round of funding. Investors include Dr. […]
- Bluu Biosciences raises cash to become Europe’s first purveyor of lab-grown salmon, trout and carpBluu Biosciences has raised €7 million in a round of financing from investors including Manta Ray Ventures, Norrsken VC, Be8, CPT Capital […]
- The Future is Female: Women Dominate Food Tech in Asia PacificSo why is it that women are particularly well-represented in Asian plant-based and cultivated meat companies, compared with other industries and regions? We […]
- Meat Giant to Bring Aleph Farms’ Lab-Grown Meat to BrazilThis week, food company BRF, S.A.—one of the largest meat suppliers in the world—signed a deal with Israel-based cultured meat company Aleph […]
- South Korean Startup CellMEAT Raises US$4.5M To Scale & Lower Cultured Meat Production CostsCellMEAT has raised ₩5 billion (approx. US$4.5 million) in a pre-Series A financing round that closed in late January 2021, the company […]
- Redefine Meat Raises a $29M Series A Round for its 3D-Printed Plant-Based MeatsIsraeli plant-based meat startup Redefine Meat announced today that it has closed a $29 million Series A round of funding. The round […]
Events (more)
- New Food Invest – online – 18 March 2021
- webinar : Producing meat without the animal
- Webinar The Science of Alt. Protein: Developing optimized media for cultivated meat production with Dr. David Block
- Producing meat without the animal Tickets, Wed 24/02/2021 at 6:30 pm AEDT
- Future Food-Tech San Francisco, March 11-12, 2021
Laws, ethics and lobbies (more)
- Farmers expect rapid growth for plant-based meats, but don’t like itHalf of the farmers surveyed by Purdue University said plant-based proteins could hold up to 10% of the meat market in five […]
- Can We Enjoy Meat and Seafood and Save the Planet? – EcoWatchThe environmental benefits of cell-cultured meat also mean less environmental destruction. Conventional meat production requires massive amounts of land for grazing and […]
- Chinese Cell-Based Meat Startup Raises US$3M Angel Round To Scale Cultured Minced PorkMainland Chinese cultivated meat startup Joes Future Food has raised 20 million RMB (US$3 million) in an angel investment round. The food […]
- Japan: Regulatory Updates on Shaping the Cultivated Meat MarketThe first move is the government initiative in establishing the Food Tech Research Group. The Food Tech Research Group, including over 100 […]
- Round one goes to Miyoko’s in ‘plant-based butter’ dispute with State of CaliforniaThe dispute began late last year after Miyoko’s was told by the Department of Food & Agriculture to drop the terms ‘butter,’ ‘lactose-free,’ […]
- FDA and USDA Could Strengthen Existing Efforts to Prepare for Oversight of Cell-Cultured MeatSoon, people will likely be able to buy cell-cultured meat. To make it, food animals are biopsied and their cells banked, or […]
- Virginia Governor Vetoes Label CensorshipFollowing calls from The Good Food Institute, the Plant Based Food Association, and others to reject legislation that would censor the labels […]
- Md. bill would restrict what foods may be labeled “meat”“Laboratory-grown meat will become more prevalent in the future, and this bill will proactively prevent these franken-meat alternatives from being labeled as […]
Market (more)
- Investor Interest in Meat Alternative Biotechs BoomsCompanies developing sustainable meat and dairy alternatives smashed records with a €2.6B ($3.1B) haul last year. Why has it been such a […]
- LCA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenariosIn this prospective Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of cultivated meat (CM, also sometimes referred to as cell-based meat, clean meat, cultured […]
- Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef: What Is It?Meanwhile, Memphis Meats, which Gates namechecked in the Technology Review interview, wants to avoid animals altogether whenever possible—including by harvesting cells from […]
- Labeling the future: ______ salmonToday, we are on the cusp of another breakthrough in technology, this time in seafood and meat production, and we are being […]
- Accelerating Innovation of Alternative MeatSo it’s understandable that Brown of Impossible Foods, and others in the alternative meat industry, are bullish on the idea that their […]
- Bel Group backs plant-based innovation with Paris accelerator on the cardsBIV currently runs four accelerator programmes per year in New York and Singapore. But with Bel on board, the US-based venture fund […]
- Cell cultures as pet food – Pets may soon be fed laboratory-grown meatPet owners, at least in the West, are more likely than other people to be vegetarians or vegans. That puts many of […]
- Hong Kong cooks up lab-grown fish as appetite for ‘clean meat’ risesWhen chef Eddy Leung was tasked with cooking what was touted as the world’s first lab-grown fish fillets in his kitchen in […]
Research (more)
- Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes and Potential Acceptance toward Artificial Meat – PubMedThe interest for artificial meat has recently expanded. However, from the literature, perception of artificial meat in China is not well known. […]
- Bioethical considerations of cell-cultured meat – PubMedFrom the perspective of bioethics, the research, development and production of cell cultured meat can help ensure the sustainable development of human […]
- Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meatSpinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College […]
- What’s the carbon footprint of lab-grown meat?If a large new production facility runs on renewable energy, the carbon footprint of cultivated meat would be lower than conventional beef, […]
- Researchers report new approach to cultured meat“Using techniques developed for regenerative medicine, we succeeded in culturing millimeter-sized chunks of meat wherein alignment of the myotubes help mimic the […]
- Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes and Potential Acceptance toward Artificial MeatThe interest for artificial meat has recently expanded. However, from the literature, perception of artificial meat in China is not well known. […]
- MIT develops method for lab-grown plants that eventually lead to alternatives to forestry and farmingResearchers at MIT have developed a new method for growing plant tissues in a lab — sort of like how companies and […]
- New Harvest Funds Australian Research on Cell-Based Crayfish MeatAn aquaculture researcher from the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) has secured a seed grant from US-based research institute New Harvest to […]
Other alternatives to meat (more)
- Revo Foods unveils 3D-printed plant-based salmonAustrian-based Revo Foods announced on Facebook it will host what it believes is the ‘world’s first’ public tasting event for its 3D-printed, […]
- Clara Foods launches animal-free pepsin: ‘We want to accelerate the world’s transition to animal-free proteins’The animal-free pepsin – which will be distributed by Ingredion – has the same functionality as the animal-derived variety, with the added benefits […]
- Tiny Organisms, Huge PotentialBut there is a rising star on the alternative protein scene—a versatile platform that is simultaneously familiar and well established yet completely […]
- Air Protein: Using fermentation to make alternative proteinWhile other well-known meat alternative companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat make plant-based protein from soy and peas, Air Protein is […]
- Center for Food Safety Filed Lawsuit Against FDA Challenging Decision to Approve Genetically Engineered Soy Protein Found in the Impossible BurgerYesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its decision to decline […]
- Beyond Meat launches new burgers that are juicier and lower in saturated fatGrocery stores traditionally offer multiple blends of lean meat and fat in beef products, and Beyond Meat says its new burgers are […]
- Beyond Meat Launches Minced Pork Product in ChinaBeyond Meat debuted its new plant-based pork product made specifically for the Chinese market yesterday, according to a report in Green Queen. […]
- Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods raises $200m in fresh fundingPlant-based burger maker Impossible Foods said on Thursday it secured $200 million in funding, less than six months after it raised the largest investment ever for a food […]