BELIEVER breaks ground on cultivated meat mega-facility
Israeli lab-grown meat company BELIEVER Meats has broken ground in North Carolina on what it claims will be the largest cultivated meat production facility...
Soylent blames algae flour for consumers feeling green
In California, popular meal replacement brand Soylent believes it has pinpointed the culprit in a recent spate of customer dissatisfaction: algal flour supplied by...
Full flavor: MeaTech plans lab-grown chicken fat pilot plant
In Belgium, publicly traded cultured meat company MeaTech is planning a pilot plant to grow chicken fat in a lab. The new facility will...
Spyce opens with the world’s first robotic kitchen
In Massachusetts, the world’s first restaurant with a robotic kitchen opened in the form of the fast-casual eatery Spyce. Created as a startup on...
Iron Man’s Robert Downey Jr. invests in Motif FoodWorks
In Boston, foodtech company Motif FoodWorks says it has received unspecified funding from Footprint Coalition Ventures, an investment firm founded by Marvel star Robert...
Bacteriophages could replace antibiotics for gut health
In Massachusetts, a new clinical study confirmed the safety and tolerability of using bacteria-specific viruses known as bacteriophages to eliminate disease-causing bacteria in the...
Meat without feet or fins: Lab-grown sushi plant set to open in Bay Area
In California, cultured seafood company Wildtype is set to open a new facility that can, at full scale, produce 200,000 pounds of cell-based, sushi-grade...
Cultivated wildebeest could soon appear on South African menus
In South Africa, cultivated meat producer Mogale Meat says it could have lab-grown game meat, such as springbok, wildebeest, and impala, available for sampling...
Survey says: consumers pick fermented foods as the top superfood
In New York, a national survey found that fermented foods – like yogurt, kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, tempeh, some pickles, kimchi and miso – ousted...
Dream job alert: Lab-grown meat startup recruiting bacon taste testers
In California, start-up Mission Barns is looking for 100 bacon lovers to do curbside taste tests of its lab-grown meat.
The taste tests will be...