Cultivated meat tech could solve traditional Chinese medicine’s poaching problem
In Hong Kong, advances in lab-grown meat development are raising hopes for alternative routes to producing Traditional Chinese Medicines—particularly remedies that have pushed several...
Improve Nature lands $3 million to expand soy-based protein that behave like meat
In North Carolina, Improved Nature raised more than $3 million to expand their offering of alternative plant-based meat substitutes made from non-GMO sustainably-sourced plant-based...
Living architecture, in-home algae farms on display in Venice
In Italy, an architecture exhibition is displaying how in-home algae cultivation can be used to both purify air and provide food. Bit.Bio.Bot, designed by...
Solar Foods advances regulatory process for its Solein alt protein
In the US, Solar Foods has submitted a Generally Recognized as Safe notification to the United States Food and Drug Administration. The company aims...
TerraVia burns the boats and sets off for the Land of Übernutrition
At the outset of his historic Conquest, Cortés gathered the men and burned the boats.
As TerraVia jettisons its break-out industrial product line and...
“Eat a Swede” satirically promotes cultivated human meat
In France, a playfully macabre short film encouraging the consumption of people—specifically, Swedish people, going by the film’s title “Eat a Swede” and tagline...
Bee-free honey maker generates buzz with $7.5 million fundraise
In San Francisco, bee-free honey startup MeliBio has raised $7.5 million to scale and commercialize its technology.
The company uses precision fermentation and plant science...
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...
Alternative protein startup raises $9 million
In California, startup NovoNutrients has raised $9 million to advance its technology that converts carbon dioxide into animal-free proteins.
Roughly half the funds came from...
Meatable taps ESCO Aster for cultivated pork production
In the Netherlands, Meatable has partnered with ESCO Aster—the only commercially licensed cultivated meat contract manufacturer in the world—to launch cultivated pork in Singapore....