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...
TetraCumin unleashes curcumin benefits
In California, Tesseract Medical Research, a life sciences company, announced TetraCumin, a product that features the bioactive curcumin metabolite Tetrahydrocurcumin, the form that is...
Plant-based TUNO seafood alternative debuts
In North Carolina, Atlantic Natural Foods, LLC debuted TUNO, a new plant-based, canned seafood alternative for seafood-free sandwiches and salads all across the U.S....
Helaina Series B nets $45 million for human lactoferrin bioactive
In New York, biotech company Helaina has raised $45 million to develop and scale human equivalent-bioactive proteins produced via precision fermentation.
The Series B funding...
Ayana Bio and Wooree Green Science partner on plant cell-derived saffron
In Boston, bioactives startup Ayana Bio has entered into a seven-figure joint development agreement with Wooree Green Science, a subsidiary of Wooree Bio. The...
301 INC leads a $17 million investment in Urban Remedy
In California, Urban Remedy, the pioneering plant-based food company offering an organic, non-GMO and ultra-fresh product roster of ready-to-eat meals, snacks, and cold pressed...
UPSIDE Foods to hold cultivated meat tasting days before Florida ban
In Miami, cultivated meat pioneer UPSIDE Foods is planning a cultivated chicken tasting on June 27, just days before a Florida ban on the...
Food delivery giant invests in cell-based fish
In Germany, the venture capital arm of Delivery Hero has made an unspecified investment in lab-grown fish firm Bluu Biosciences.
Delivery Hero is based in...
DuPont receives Gates Foundation grant for protein-based biologic medicine development
In Delaware, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided a grant to DuPont Industrial Biosciences to create new production systems to enable affordable, protein-based...
France ag minister poo-poos cultivated meat, asks Twitter-verse to think of the children
In France, Agricultural Minister Julien Denormandie has seemingly indicated he will not approve cell-based meat for sale. On social media, Denormandie wrote, “Meat comes...