A pig deal: Steakholder Foods adds cultured pork
In Israel, Steakholder Foods Ltd., formerly MeaTech 3D, has announced it will begin developing cultured pork products from a new line of iPS porcine...
Mirai and Shiok partner on cultivated beef
In Singapore, two major cultivated meat companies have partnered to develop lab-grown beef and secure regulatory approval. Under the terms of the agreement, Switzerland’s...
Spent brewers’ yeast used to make vegan ribs
In California, food tech firm Planetarians is converting spent brewers’ yeast sourced from AB InBev—maker of popular beer brands like Budweiser and Stella Artois—into...
Cali startup claims world’s first cultivated pork loin
In California, cultivated meat maker Novel Farms has claimed production of the world’s first lab-grown, marbled pork loin.
Many cultivated meat companies focus on making...
Caveman diet: Wooly mammoth burgers could soon be on the menu
In Belgium, a meat alternative startup is expanding its product R&D efforts from the more conventional beef, chicken, pork and lamb varieties to wooly...
Show me the honey: Start up developing bee-free route
In the Netherlands, Fooditive has begun developing bee-free honey using DNA from honey and fermentation enzymes. The company says its faux honey has the...
“One-stop shop” precision fermentation CDMO launched in Singapore
In Singapore, agribusiness major ADM and Asia Sustainable Foods Platform have inaugurated their ScaleUp Bio Joint Venture, which will provide contract development and manufacturing...
Pope asks youth to cut down on meat
In Prague, Pope Francis has requested young people cut down on meat to help address the climate crisis. In a letter to the EU...
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...
DIC Corp. invests in algae-based protein maker
In Chicago, a food tech company developing extracts and alternative proteins from algae has received funding from Tokyo’s DIC Corporation.
DIC says the unspecified investment...