Grégory | Clean Meat and Alternative Foods

Research

Muscle stem cell isolation and in vitro culture for meat production: A methodological review

GrégoryJanuary 22, 2021January 17, 2021

Cultured muscle tissue-based protein products, also known as cultured meat, are produced through in vitro myogenesis involving muscle stem cell culture and differentiation, and mature muscle cell processing for flavor...

Compagnies and key players

Cell-cultured meat gamechanger? Matrix Meats to showcase nanofiber scaffolding in ‘solid meat product’ this year

GrégoryJanuary 21, 2021January 15, 2021

Matrix Meats – an Ohio-based startup developing customizable nanofiber scaffolds for cell-cultured meat production - will showcase a prototype “solid meat product such as a thin piece of steak” in...

News

Under Discussion: Aristotelian Temperance and Cultured Meat

GrégoryJanuary 20, 2021January 12, 2021

Admittedly, I’m taking for granted here that the currently standard system of raising creatures in captivity and subjecting them to immense pain simply for the purpose of consuming their flesh...

Research

The coverage of cultured meat in the US and UK traditional media, 2013-2019: drivers, sources, and competing narratives

GrégoryJanuary 19, 2021January 12, 2021

'Cultured' meat has attracted a considerable amount of investor and media interest as an early-stage technology. Despite uncertainties about its future impact, news media may be contributing to promissory discourses,...

Market

Michelin Star Japanese Chef Launches Startup to Create Cultured Meat

GrégoryJanuary 18, 2021January 12, 2021

But if you’re Chef Shimamura Masaharu of Japan, someone who writes that in high school he wondered whether to “to wear a cook’s lab coat or a scientist’s lab coat,”...

Compagnies and key players Laws, ethics and lobbies

Chinese Cell-Based Meat Startup Raises US$3M Angel Round To Scale Cultured Minced Pork

GrégoryJanuary 16, 2021January 15, 2021

Mainland Chinese cultivated meat startup Joes Future Food has raised 20 million RMB (US$3 million) in an angel investment round. The food tech, recently rebranded from Nanjing Zhouzi, will be...

Compagnies and key players

Let Your Cat Eat Mice! Our Cultured Mouse Cat Treat

GrégoryJanuary 15, 2021January 12, 2021

We get why alternatives to traditional meat might be on your mind — COVID-19 is the result of humans raising animals for slaughter. Ditto SARS, MERS, Avian Flu, Swine Flu...

Market

Lab-Grown Meat Isn’t Natural—And Neither Is Factory Farming

GrégoryJanuary 14, 2021January 12, 2021

The consumer preference for naturalness is likely restricting the cultured material sector’s progress. While artificial food production systems are proliferating, as are the associated companies’ market shares, this growth is...

Compagnies and key players

Aleph Farms and Mitsubishi Bring Cultivated Meat to Japan

GrégoryJanuary 13, 2021January 12, 2021

We’re excited to announce that we signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsubishi Corporation’s Food Industry Group to bring cultivated meat to the Japanese table. We will provide our...

Market

From lab to plate: ‘Cultured meat’ finally hits the menu

GrégoryJanuary 12, 2021

Lab-grown meat isn’t science fiction anymore. Last month, a restaurant in downtown Singapore called 1880 became the first in the world to serve what’s known as “cultured meat” — meat...