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Israeli cultured meat outfit Believer Meats, known formerly as Future Meat, is looking to play a pivotal role in the availability of lab-grown meat products, and a new facility under construction in the US should help these efforts along. The company s… Continue reading World’s largest cultured meat factory takes shape in the US
California company Upside Foods has been given the green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lab-grown chicken, paving the way for its product to reach market shelves next year, and making the US the second country in the wor… Continue reading FDA gives green light to first lab-grown chicken product in US
There has been a lot of activity in the world of cultured meat since we reported on a US$330,000 lab-grown burger back in 2013, as scientists and startups work to bring the price down to something resembling the real deal. Making inroads in this space … Continue reading Future Meats drives cost of lab-grown chicken down to $1.70 a breast
McDonald’s is preparing to bring a plant-based burger co-developed with Beyond Meat stateside for a trial run in a handful of restaurants. The McPlant is promised to offer the “iconic” taste of a McDonald’s burger with all the trimmings, though the fir… Continue reading McDonald’s to trial McPlant plant-based burger in the US
Science fiction has long floated the idea of a device that can produce any kind of object one can imagine. Star Trek called it a replicator, while other writers have referred to it as a Santa Claus Machine.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Lab … Continue reading Blood, brains and burgers: The future is lab-grown everything
From Singapore to the International Space Station, we’re starting to see how cultured, or lab-grown, meat might soon make its way out of the lab and into everyday diets, and a newly opened factory in Israel should do plenty to help things along. Billed… Continue reading World’s first lab-grown-meat factory opens in Israel
A little over two years after Israel-based start-up Aleph Farms unveiled the world’s first lab-grown steak, the company has now revealed a much more complex, thick-cut rib-eye steak. Cultivated using a novel 3D bioprinting technology, the company sugge… Continue reading World-first lab-grown rib-eye steak demonstrates new 3D bioprinting tech
Researchers from Tufts University have genetically engineered bovine cells to produce lab-grown beef containing beta-carotene, a plant nutrient that is converted into vitamin A in the human body. The researchers suggest lab-grown meats in the future co… Continue reading Lab-grown meat can be genetically enhanced with plant nutrients
After overcoming a number of regulatory hurdles it looks like Impossible Foods’ plant-based meat alternative will finally be hitting grocery stores in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the additive so… Continue reading Key Impossible Burger ingredient finally approved by FDA for direct-to-consumer sales
For the last few years a cold war has been brewing in the world of food-labeling. Sensing the oncoming market disruption from alternative and plant-based meat substitutes, traditional meat-producing industries have been lobbying to pass laws … Continue reading The burger battle: The lawsuits challenging restrictions on plant-based meat labels