Cell-Based News

UK company Cultigen Group has joined its marketplace, research and pricing platforms for cultivated meat into a Research Layer for scientists. Cultigen Group, which is building a series of tools to help cultivated meat innovators…
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has published its third batch of guidance documents to support cultivated meat companies, this time focused on regulatory approval and growth media. As cultivated meat firms grapple with a new trade deal…
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Swiss alternative chocolate startup Food Brewer has debuted Yodel Bites, a cocoa-free chocolate bar made from yellow pea byproducts, on all SBB trains with dining cars across the country. Food Brewer, a Swiss food tech startup backed by…
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Scientists have developed a way to grow self-organising bovine tissues from cultured embryonic stem cells to recreate the texture of animal muscle fibres in cultivated meat. Cultivated meat companies are currently focused on scaling up…
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US-based Association for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation and UK company Cultigen Group have teamed up to accelerate progress for the cultivated meat sector. A new cross-Atlantic collaboration aims to help companies boost their…
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The UK's Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU could jeopardise its biotech lead, with an open letter calling on Andy Burnham to ensure the deal preserves the country's novel food regulatory progress. Food tech…
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Parisian startup Nūmi, which is developing cell-based breast milk, has secured €3.7M ($4.3M) in non-dilutive funding from the French government after being selected as a France 2030 i-Démo laureate. French cellular agriculture player…
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Alternative protein startups in Europe raised 56% more capital in the first half of 2026 than the same period a year ago, dominating the global investment landscape for this sector. After a dismal year in which investment in the…
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ProFuse Technology has used EU funding to develop technologies that address key challenges in cultivated meat production and could help address muscle loss associated with GLP-1 use. Can the cultivated meat industry benefit people on…
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US startup Upside Foods has withdrawn its $50M offer to purchase the North Carolina facility of defunct cultivated meat firm Believer Meats, although it remains interested in the sale. Eight months after abruptly ceasing operations, the…
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Researchers in Australia have found that the waste from cultivated meat could be used to grow microalgae, which could be fed back into the system to replace expensive growth factors for cell-cultured proteins. The key to cheaper…
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South Korean startup TissenBioFarm has conducted a tasting of its cell-based coffee, the latest addition to its portfolio of high-value-added cellular agriculture products. One of South Korea's pioneering cultivated meat companies is…
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Israeli food tech firm Ever After Foods has secured $2M in funding and acquired Belgium's Fishway, combining their cultivated protein technologies with an initial focus on pet food. Ever After Foods is advancing its cultivated meat…
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The World Economic Forum has namechecked alternative proteins and cellular agriculture as solutions that must be incorporated into food for long space missions. As missions to the Moon and Mars evolve from symbolic milestones to…
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Berlin-based Cultimate Foods has closed down nearly four months after filing for bankruptcy, unable to secure enough funding to stay afloat. Cultimate Foods, the German startup known for its cell-cultured fat that enhances the taste of…
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US startup Friends & Family Pet Food has added four broth toppers to its cultivated quail lineup for cats and dogs in Singapore, as it works to update the packaging to plug the consumer awareness gap. Three months after entering the…
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Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms has obtained regulatory approval for its beef steak in Singapore, and plans to launch the product in the first half of 2027. Cultivated beef could land on Singapore's restaurant menus as early…
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Singaporean food tech startup ImpacFat has teamed up with M3triq to use AI-powered ingredient discovery to fast-track the commercialisation of its cultivated omega-3 fish fat. The convergence of food tech and artificial intelligence…
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A new study suggests that consumers in the US and Germany are more accepting of cultivated meat when labelled with that term instead of 'lab-grown'. What do you call cultivated meat to deliver the maximum impact? Do you keep that…
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Austrian-American food tech startup BioCraft Pet Nutrition has published a publicly available regulatory dossier for cultivated meat ingredients in pet food, proposing a minimum safety disclosure standard for the industry. To advance…
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The EU has invested €5.5M ($6.3M) in the Coco-AI project, which aims to use artificial intelligence to develop a plant cell culture platform to grow sustainable cocoa. As part of its Horizon Europe scheme, the EU is betting on…
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