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Biodesign Challenge’s New Book Highlights The Role Of Biotech In Sustainability
Artists, scientists, and Biodesign Challenge alumni come together in a new book in the emerging role of biotech in sustainability.
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Six-Year Research Project To Ferment ‘New Category’ Of Plant-Based Protein
Researchers in Denmark will soon kickstart a six-year project to create an entirely new category of climate-friendly plant-based proteins using fermentation technology. Called Proferment, the project is being backed by the Novo Nordisk!-->…
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360 Sprouts Farmers Markets Just Added Vegan Meat From Abbot’s Butcher
Abbot’s Butcher, the maker of premium vegan meats, has launched at hundreds of Sprouts Farmers Markets locations in the U.S.
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Motif FoodWorks Secures US$226M To Scale & Commercialise Its Plant-Based Protein Tech
Ingredient innovation startup Motif FoodWorks has raised US$226 million in a Series B funding round to expand its R&D capabilities and make make plant-based food better tasting and more nutritious. Agfunder News (AFN) announced the!-->…
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Israeli Startup YO-Egg Creates Sunny-Side-Up Vegan Egg Sans Chickens
YO-Egg has developed an alternative egg substitute made out of 100% plant-based, proprietary and patent-pending ingredients, which it claims offers the same nutrition as traditional eggs.
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Hong Kong’s Avant Named WEF Technology Pioneer For Cell-Cultured Seafood
Hong Kong-based Avant, the startup making fish proteins directly from cells, has been named one of the world’s 100 most promising Technology Pioneers for 2021. The list, selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF), identifies companies that!-->…
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Change Foods Raises US$2.1M Seed Funding To Fuel Bay Area Expansion & Animal-Free Cheese R&D
Change Foods, the animal-free dairy startup based between the U.S. and Australia, has just announced the closing of its US$2.1 million seed funding round. The capital will be used to fuel its expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area and!-->…
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Orbillion Bio Joins AMPS Coalition Bringing Cell-Cultured Proteins To U.S. Market
Orbillion Bio, the Silicon Valley food tech dedicated to culturing premium heritage meats, has joined the Alliance for Meat, Poultry & Seafood Innovation (AMPS Innovation). The coalition is made up of seven other U.S.-based members,!-->…
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Food Scientists Look For Better Ways To Develop Healthier & Tastier Plant-Based Alternative Proteins
Food scientists have set out to find new ways to make plant-based proteins more nutritious and taste better. In a new paper exploring the topic, researchers say that they hope to take a multidisciplinary approach to improve the health!-->…
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Dairy-Free Cashew & Oat Milk Maker Plant Veda Unveils Vegan Probiotic Lassi
Alternative dairy company Plant Veda has created vegan lassi (an Indian yogurt drink) from cashews and real fruits without cane sugar that contains gut-healthy probiotics in order to encourage more people to transition to a healthy!-->…
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The Protein Brewery Completes Pilot Plant & Delivers First Samples Of Flagship Fermotein
Food tech The Protein Brewery uses microbial fermentation to create alternative protein ingredients and has just completed the construction of its pilot plant in Breda, Netherlands and delivered its first food grade production samples of!-->…
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Indonesian Startup Green Rebel Foods Unveils Asia’s First Plant-Based Whole Cut Steak To Meet Growing Demand For Meat
Indonesian plant-based meat startup Green Rebel has debuted two new products, a Beefless Steak and a Chick’n Steak, in what it calls the "first plant-based whole cut steak in Asia" at two of the leading steakhouse dining chains in the!-->…
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Plant-Based Bacon Owner Hooray Foods Raises US$2M To Develop New Alt Meat Products
Alternative meat company Hooray Foods, which has made headlines for its plant-based bacon, has raised US$2 million in a seed round that takes the company’s total funding to date around US$4 million. The funds will be used to expand its!-->…
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Better Meat Co. Opens Giant Fermentation Plant To Produce ‘Rhiza’ Mycoprotein
The Better Meat Co. has finished building its huge fermentation plant that will churn out “thousands of pounds” of its new superfood mycoprotein ingredient called Rhiza. The new facility will also serve as its R&D and corporate!-->…
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Meatless Farm Launches Crowdfunding Campaign So Customers Can Back The Plant-Based Meat Brand
Plant-based meat brand Meatless Farm is providing consumers an opportunity to "grab a share of the M...F... pie” by debuting its retail investor funding round on the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube with hopes to raise GBP£5!-->…
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Cargill CEO David MacLennan: Plant-Based To Be ‘10% Of The Market’ & Will Cannibalise Meat Business
David MacLennan, the chief executive officer of agribusiness giant Cargill, the world's third-largest meat producer globally, said that the plant-based protein industry will eat into the market share of animal-based products in a few years!-->…
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Whole Foods Plant-Based Trend Predictions: Nut-Based Cheese Spreads & Seafood Alternatives Take Over
Natural and organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market, known for its yearly trend lists, has revealed its first-ever exclusively plant-based predictions with nut-based cheese alternatives, fish substitutes made from banana blossoms and!-->…
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Cell-Cultured Startup Finless Foods Makes Plant-Based Entry With Tuna Product
Californian cell-cultured seafood startup Finless Foods has announced its expansion into the plant-based seafood category, debuting a new vegan tuna alternative as the “next step” in their company’s mission to protect the oceans. It comes!-->…
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France Risks Missing Out On Cultivated Meat Opportunities, Cell Ag Experts Warn
Cell-based meat industry experts are calling on the French government to step up their efforts to tap into the opportunities to be made in the fast-growing sector, or risk missing out on the global market. Co-founder of the nonprofit!-->…
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‘Tesla Of Chicken’ Startup SIMULATE Raises US$50M For Plant-Based NUGGS At US$250M Valuation
SIMULATE, the startup responsible for the plant-based NUGGS brand which it produces from ghost kitchens, has raised US$50 million in a Series B funding round led by co-founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian's venture firm Seven Seven Six at an!-->…
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Cultivated Tech: Geltor Unveils ‘PrimaColl’, Animal-Free Collagen For F&B Industry
Biodesign startup Geltor has unveiled PrimaColl, which the company claims is the world’s first real vegan collagen for the food and beverage industry, an exact match for the bioactive amino acid core of Type 21 collagen.
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