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Singaporeans More Open To Cultivated Meat Than The US Consumers, New Study Finds
Singaporeans are more accepting of cultivated meats than their U.S. counterparts. The finding comes from a study conducted by the Singapore Management University (SMU). Data points to a correlation between social image and acceptance of!-->…
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Israel’s Alt Protein Sector Saw 450% Increase In Investments In 2021, Says New Report
Israel’s alternative protein sector has experienced its biggest investment year on record, according to a new report. Industry startup raised $623 million last year, a 450 percent increase from 2020’s $114 million. The jump secured Israel!-->…
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New APAC Cellular Agriculture Coalition Aims To ‘Foster A Harmonized Industry’ Ahead Of Commercialization
The APAC Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA) announced its launch this week as a new coalition with a mission to offer member companies developing cultivated meat and seafood access to shared information. Its key priorities include!-->…
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Opalia Enters Cultivated Milk Race To Push Sustainability And Animal Welfare Issues Forward
Montreal-based Opalia has announced that is has successfully produced cell-based milk without the use of fetal bovine serum (FBS). The startup has already secured $1 million in pre-seed funding, with a seed round now in progress for!-->…
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SuperMeat Announces New Partnership With Ajinomoto To Accelerate Cultivated Meat Commercialisation
Israeli foodtech SuperMeat, whose cultivated chicken a food expert called indistinguishable from the animal version, has announced a strategic partnership with Japanese food giant Ajinomoto. The two plan to work together to speed up and!-->…
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Stämm Biotech Secures $17 Million For Desktop Sized Bioreactors
Buenos Aires-based Stämm Biotech recently closed a $17 million Series A round to scale its 3-D printing bioreactors aimed at the global cultivated meat sector. This brings the startup’s funding to $20 million. The new investment will be!-->…
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President Xi References China’s Alt-Protein Sector In National Food Security Speech
In a historic first, China’s President Xi Jinping has referenced alternative proteins in a speech during which he underlined his support for domestic food innovation. Speaking at a meeting with agricultural, social welfare and social!-->…
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South Africa’s Mzansi Meat To Debut Africa’s First-Ever Cultivated Meat Beef Burger
Mzansi Meat, the African continent's first cellular agriculture startup, has announced that it has successfully produced a cultivated beef burger after two years of research and development. The burger will make its debut was made at a!-->…
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Mexico’s Micro Meat Launches To Offer Cultivated Meat Manufacturers A New Way To Scale
Micro Meat, Mexico's first cultivated meat startup, Micro Meat, has launched to offer key foundational tech for the growing cellular agriculture industry. The startup, which is based in Monterrey and co-founded by a tissue engineer and a!-->…
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Asian Food & Biotech Giant Joins Forces With Korean Startup To Build Cultivated Meat Cell Line Production
One of Asia’s largest food and biotech companies, CJ CheilJedang, is entering the cultivated meat industry in partnership with KCell Biosciences, a startup focused on cell culture media. The companies will construct a cell culture media!-->…
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Upside Foods Opens Its Doors for ‘EPIC’ Consumer Tours About The Future Of Meat
California’s Upside Foods, which has pioneered cultivated meat in the U.S, has announced that it is inviting consumers to tour around its Engineering, Production, and Innovation Center (EPIC) in Emeryville as a way to educate the public!-->…
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IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food
The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them. The leader of the NGO think!-->…
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2021 Record Year For Alt Protein Investment, With APAC Showing Significant Funding Growth
Non-profit think tank the Good Food Institute (GFI) APAC has released a report documenting the alt-protein sector’s growth within the APAC region and globally over the past year. Highlights include a 60 percent increase in funding into the!-->…
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Singapore’s Umami Meats Nets $2.4 Million For ‘Cultivated, Not Caught’ Seafood
Singaporean cellular agriculture startup Umami Meats has closed a $2.4 million pre-seed investment round. The company specialises in “cultivated, not caught” seafood production. Funding has been earmarked for continued plant-based serum!-->…
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Eat Just Partners With Singapore Hawkers To Bring Heritage And The Future Of Food Together
Eat Just has announced a significant first: over the weekend, the company partnered with chefs at iconic Singaporean hawker stalls to launch dishes made with cultivated GOOD Meat chicken products across the island nation. Select hawkers!-->…
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Regulatory Approval For Alt-Protein, Report: The EU Faces ‘A Barrier,’ The US Is ‘Winning’
A new report neatly summarizes the state of regulatory approvals for alternative protein products around the world in just a few pages.
Spain’s Amgen, which provides regulatory advice and consulting to companies working in the!-->!-->!-->…
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Aleph Farms Moves To New Premises To Scale Cultivated “Thin-Cut’ Beef Steak Prototypes
Israel’s Aleph Farms has announced that it has relocated to new 65,000 square foot headquarters in Rehovot, which will allow the cultivated meat company to increase production by six-fold. Production of thin-cut beef steaks will be the!-->…
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CellulaREvolution Edges Closer To Commercial Launch With New $2.38 Million Pre-Series A Investment Round
CellulaREvolution has announced the closure of a new funding round. Having netted £1.75 million in a pre-Series A, the British biotech intends to accelerate the development of its continuous cell cultivation technology. This will be used!-->…
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Vega Founder’s Cultivated Fiction Chicken Eggs Will Be Market Ready By Q3
Cultivated eggs will be commercially available before the end of the year, says Fiction Foods, a subsidiary of Cult Food Science.
“It’s not a fake egg, but a whole new culinary experience, that is made from a single-cell organism called!-->!-->!-->…
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Israel’s Wilk Technologies Earns U.S. Patent Approval For Cultivated Breast and Animal Milk Processes
U.S. patent approval has been granted to Israel's Wilk Technologies for its proprietary procedures and technology associated with milk cultivation. The company, formerly known as BioMilk, holds the patent exclusively and it covers both!-->…
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Are Psychedelics The Next Big Trend In Cellular Agriculture?
Chicago’s Back of the Yard Algae Sciences (BYAS) has revealed it is on the brink of an ecologically significant breakthrough. The company, which uses cellular agriculture to create zero-waste food additives, claims to have reproduced toad!-->…
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