Derek Jeter invests in Meati Foods

In Colorado, baseball legend Derek Jeter has invested in alternative protein company Meati Foods and joined the company as an advisor. Based in Boulder,...

Cow-free dairy company Standing Ovation taps Ajinomoto’s French biomanufacturing asset

In France, precision fermentation-based dairy proteins firm Standing Ovation has entered into a long-term partnership with Ajinomoto Foods Europe to produce animal-free proteins at...

Geltor raises $18 million to keep bio-designing animal-free collagen

In California, Geltor, the bio-design company behind Designer Collagen, announced $18.2 million in Series A financing. Geltor developed a proprietary bio-design platform where high-value...

Bill Gates invests in cell-based breast milk startup

In North Carolina, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures has co-led an oversubscribed, $21-million Series A funding for cell-based breast milk startup Biomilq.  Using cellular agriculture...

Funding shortfall forces NovoNutrients to launch asset sale

In California, gas fermentation firm NovoNutrients has ceased operations and is looking for a buyer for its assets, citing difficulty securing sufficient funding. The...

Aleph Farms files for Cultivated Meat in Thailand

In Israel, Aleph Farms has submitted its first regulatory application for cultivated meat in Thailand. This application, filed in collaboration with Thai Union, aims...

Cargill and Precision BioSciences partner to make low saturated fat canola oil

In Minnesota, Cargill and Precision BioSciences collaborated to use Precision's ARCUS genome-editing technology to further reduce saturated fat in canola oil, putting Cargill at...

Researchers create biodegradable OLED from chitosan

In Portugal and Italy, researchers from the University of Lisbon and the University of Modena have developed a dissolvable light-emitting diode from chitosan, a...

Meatable achieves “cell to sausage” in just 4 days

In the Netherlands, Meatable has reached an important milestone in its efforts to produce cultivated meat at scale—the transformation of pluripotent stem cells into...

Algae cooking oil from Algae Cooking Club debuts to great fanfare

In Delaware, a startup called Algae Cooking Club is set to launch sustainable algae-based cooking oil in the US by the end of February....

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