Nestlé begins piloting animal-free dairy proteins
In Switzerland, food and beverage giant Nestlé will begin piloting production of animal-free dairy proteins at a recently inaugurated R&D Accelerator. Using precision fermentation...
Gouda idea: Cali company raises cash for animal-free cheese
In San Francisco, animal-free cheesemaker Change Foods has raised $875,000 in an oversubscribed, pre-seed funding round, according to Green Queen.
The company had initially targeted...
Not enough fish in the sea: Start-up works to culture sushi-grade salmon
In San Francisco, Wildtype is working to grow sushi-grade salmon in a lab amid dangerously depleted ocean populations and factory farming beset with pest...
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...
Green beans: Brazil’s Cellva uses biotech to convert coffee waste into cocoa substitute
In Brazil, a São Paulo-based biotech startup is converting coffee waste into cocoa substitute in an effort to address shortages, high prices, and large...
Memphis Meats raises $17 million to make meat without the animal
In California, Memphis Meats raised $17 million from a group of investors including Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Cargill to continue developing delicious products,...
GOOD Meat breaks ground on cultivated meat mega-facility
In Singapore, GOOD Meat has broken ground on Asia’s largest cultivated meat production facility.
The complex, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2023...
Ivy Farm and Synbio Powerlabs partner to scale cultivated meat
In Finland, Ivy Farm and Synbio Powerlabs have signed an agreement to scale and produce cultivated meat in Finland at the world's largest cultivated...
Bolthouse Farms Plant Protein Milk debuts with more calcium than dairy
In California, Bolthouse Farms, the largest producer of baby carrots in North America, debuted Bolthouse Farms Plant Protein Milk, a refrigerated non-dairy alternative milk...
Let them eat lab-grown caviar
In London, scientists at Caviar Biotec and University College London have grown sturgeon caviar in a lab using cells from a fish egg sac....