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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...

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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...

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Milestone: Over 80x reduction in our medium cost

GrégoryAugust 19, 2020August 11, 2020

Last year, the MO team successfully removed Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) from our media. Given FBS is the standard used in cell culturing, this was no small task. But FBS...

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Creating clean, cell-based shrimp with Shiok Meats

GrégoryAugust 18, 2020August 11, 2020

Due to a lack of academic research and background knowledge regarding cells and crustacean stem cells its taken them approx. two years to fill in any research gaps and to...

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Cell-based meat start-up New Age Meats secures additional funding

GrégoryAugust 13, 2020August 11, 2020

US cell-based firm New Age Meats has secured US$2m from investors just six months after raising $2.7m in seed funding from a consortium of backers.The California company said the new seed...

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UK startup Higher Steaks debuts world’s first lab-grown bacon

GrégoryJuly 24, 2020July 23, 2020

While plant-based diets are growing in popularity, many people across the world will go on craving the taste and texture of meat — which is where Higher Steaks comes in.The...

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KFC is working with a Russian 3D bioprinting firm to try to make lab-produced chicken nuggets

GrégoryJuly 23, 2020July 22, 2020

"3D bioprinting technologies, initially widely recognized in medicine, are nowadays gaining popularity in producing foods such as meat,” Yusef Khesuani, co-founder of 3D Bioprinting Solutions said in a statement announcing...

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Shiok Meats bags $3m in bridge funding ahead of series A

GrégoryJuly 17, 2020July 17, 2020

Singapore-based foodtech startup Shiok Meats said it has raised US$3 million in a bridge funding round from Agronomics, US-based VegInvest, UK-based Impact Venture, and UAE-headquartered Mindshift Capital Fund, securing a...

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Coming soon to a 3D printer near you: Plant-based steaks

GrégoryJuly 8, 2020July 7, 2020

"You need a 3D printer to mimic the structure of the muscle of the animal," CEO Eshchar Ben-Shitrit told Reuters. The machines to be launched next year will be able...

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Impossible Foods CEO: Meat industry will be obsolete within 15 years

GrégoryJune 28, 2020June 26, 2020

“From a nutritional standpoint our products match the protein quality and content of the animal products that they replace” and “ours is a clear winner from a health and nutrition...