October, 2020 | Clean Meat and Alternative Foods

Two Austin Women Hope to Build the First Lab-Grown Brisket

GrégoryOctober 16, 2020October 8, 2020

That’s when Kam expects BioBQ, the company she started with cofounder Janet Zoldan in late 2018, will harvest its first lab-grown brisket. Kam and Zoldan want the world’s first lab-grown...

News

The Cellular Agriculture Course by the David Kaplan Laboratory at Tufts University

GrégoryOctober 15, 2020October 8, 2020

Welcome to the Kaplan Lab Cell-Ag Course’s Teaching Resource Website! At Tufts University we teach a yearly university level undergraduate class on cellular agriculture, mostly focused on the Bioengineering behind...

Market

Techno-Economic Models and Cultivated Meat by Robert Yaman

GrégoryOctober 14, 2020October 8, 2020

One potential method of resolving this uncertainty is to create a “techno-economic model” (TEM). A TEM tries to understand what the economics of a technology will look like once the...

Research

National Science Foundation Awards UC Davis $3.55 Million for Cultivated Meat Research

GrégoryOctober 13, 2020October 8, 2020

The U.S. government awarded a total of $3.55 million, to be dispersed over five years, to a team of researchers at UC Davis for open-access cultivated meat research. The researchers...

Compagnies and key players

Mosa Meat secures £55m to bring cell-based meat to consumers

GrégoryOctober 12, 2020October 8, 2020

Mosa Meat — the Dutch company which made the world’s first lab-grown meat burger back in 2013 — has raised $55m in new funding, which it hopes to use to...

Research

Analysis of Scientific and Press Articles Related to Cultured Meat for a Better Understanding of Its Perception

GrégoryOctober 10, 2020October 9, 2020

The main conclusion is that cultured meat is mainly developing in the USA and the UK, with other countries, such as China, observing the trend for potential future applications. Scientific...

Market Research

European Markets for Cultured Meat: A Comparison of Germany and France

GrégoryOctober 9, 2020October 8, 2020

Substantial markets for cultured meat exist in both countries, although German consumers are significantly more open to the concept than the French. Strikingly, cultured meat acceptance is significantly higher amongst...

Market

Cell-based, cultured… or something else? The new seafood labeling challenge.

GrégoryOctober 8, 2020October 8, 2020

The Hallman study is significant because it followed a robust scientific process. Based on the analysis, we think the most appropriate terms are “cell-based” or “cell-cultured” meat or seafood, while...