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Here are 5 new biotech ag products that consumers might fall in love with

Kristine Tome | 
After almost three decades of providing solutions to farmers’ concerns, biotech experts are now releasing and developing a new set ...
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Harnessing algae opens a new frontier in sustainable meat-like protein

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji Bello | 
Evidently, the need for alternatives to traditional meat and cheese has been a growing concern for health and the environment ...
Cell-based protein for your pup? Cultivated meat companies see large potential market in pet food

Cell-based protein for your pup? Cultivated meat companies see large potential market in pet food

Michelle Perrett | 
The pet food market is becoming a target for cultivated meat; a small number of lab meat producers are targeting ...
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Want to sample lab-grown meat? Too late — experimental tastings at premier restaurants around the world are on pause. Here’s why, and what the future holds

Matt Reynolds | 
July 2023 was a landmark moment for the cultivated meat industry. For the first time, meat brewed directly from chicken ...
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Kosher animals? Here’s why not all cellular-based meat will pass muster with Jewish law

From the perspective of Jewish law, lab-grown meat poses several novel questions, most obviously if it’s kosher. The short answer ...
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Arizona joins slate of states pushing cell-based meat bans

Deniz Ataman | 
Arizona, along with Florida and Texas, is the next state to propose stringent laws like censorship and bans for cultivated ...
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Why gene editing could slingshot cell-based meat to economic viability

Rupendra Brahambhatt | 
A shocking report from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that cultivated meat could reduce emissions by 96 percent. However, currently, the ...
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Religious Muslims cleared to consume lab-grown beef if origins of cells are from ‘humanely-killed’ cows

Ahmed Issawy | 
Lab-grown meat is a rising trend among those looking to reduce their carbon footprint ...
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Viewpoint: Some Republican-governed states want to ban or limit sales of cell-cultivated meat. Here’s why that’s a bad idea

Brian Kateman | 
At the end of January, Florida’s House and the Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill introduced by Republican Rep. Danny ...
Livestock industry targets Florida in campaign to block cultivated meat innovation

Livestock industry targets Florida in campaign to block cultivated meat innovation

Jacob Ogles | 
If Florida bans cultivated meat, it will be the first in the nation to do so. With food scarcity challenging ...
Lab-cultured eel alternative to an over-fished delicacy? Israel-Japan partnership looks to 2025 launch

Lab-cultured eel alternative to an over-fished delicacy? Israel-Japan partnership looks to 2025 launch

Anay Mridul | 
Forsea Foods, the only known company working on cell-based eel, has created the first prototype of its cultivated eel. The ...
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‘Cell-based meat grows like a tumor’: A new ad campaign targeting cultivated meat industry criticized as ‘deceptive and unscientific’

Matt Reynolds | 
A new public information campaign against cultivated—or “lab-grown”—meat is being run by a group with close links to a controversial ...
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USDA: Why cell-based meat is critical to address climate change

Deniz Ataman | 
In a historic move, USDA-NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) program invested in cultivated meat research ...
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Viewpoint: As concerns about plastic pollution in the ocean mount, there is a yet untapped solution — genetically-engineered bacteria that “eat” plastic. Will activists and the government block it?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ...
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Israel becomes first nation to approve a cell-based beef product

Phoebe Fraser | 
Aleph Farms has announced that Israel’s government agency has issued regulatory approval for Aleph Cuts, the “world’s first” cell-based beef ...
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Viewpoint: Proposed Arizona lab-grown meat ban protects cattle ranch interests and holds back needed food innovation

Keith Nunes | 
House Bill 2121 has been introduced in the Arizona legislature and would ban the sale or production of cultivated meat ...
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Methane gas from cow burps and other sources accelerates global warming. Here’s a genetic tweaking technique that could transform it into organic fertilizer

Molly McCrea, Sara Donchey | 
A Bay Area biotech firm is working on a clever strategy to capture a worrisome greenhouse gas, and in the ...
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Modernizing ancient techniques: How harnessing microbes could make alternative proteins more palatable

Allyson Chiu | 
There’s a growing category of foods using an age-old technique that experts say could be a dark horse in the ...
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Weight-loss drugs, malaria vaccines and more: CRISPR innovations headline the science breakthroughs of 2023

Derek Thompson | 
CRISPR is the year’s top breakthrough not only because of heroic work done in the past 12 months, but also ...
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Pondering the future of fruit in a climate-challenged world: Can we grow fruit without trees?

Sonali Mookerjee | 
Plant Cell Culture technology utilizes the ability of a single plant cell to produce multiple cells. In the lab, we ...
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Viewpoint: Fake meat doesn’t taste anything like the real thing. Pilot project putting pig genes in soybeans hopes to change the status quo

Matt Reynolds | 
Paladini is the CEO of Moolec Science, a molecular farming firm that uses crops to grow animal proteins. The idea is ...
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Cell-based, lab grown meat is splitting food and agricultural sustainability communities. Here’s why

Sara Klimek | 
Proponents of cultivated meat argue that it carries numerous environmental benefits compared to conventional agriculture — all of which are particularly ...
For synthetic biology, 2023 was a very opportune year

For synthetic biology, 2023 was a very opportune year

Kerry Taylor-Smith | 
Synthetic biology is a multidisciplinary field that often draws inspiration from nature to build molecular components ...
Podcast: Breast milk provides immunity benefits — but isn’t accessible to all parents. Here’s how artificial milk could one day replace standard baby formula

Podcast: Breast milk provides immunity benefits — but isn’t accessible to all parents. Here’s how artificial milk could one day replace standard baby formula

Alex Ossola, Danny Lewis | 
Breast milk imparts a number of long-term health benefits to babies, including a lower risk of asthma, obesity, Type 1 ...
As climate change threatens to eliminate land suitable for arabica production, cell-based coffee may eventually offer a solution

As climate change threatens to eliminate land suitable for arabica production, cell-based coffee may eventually offer a solution

Nick Brown | 
Scientists in Finland have shed new light on the process of making, roasting and analyzing lab-grown cellular coffee ...
‘Gastronomic dreams of astronomical proportions’: Collaboration between government and companies key to producing cell-based meat at scale

‘Gastronomic dreams of astronomical proportions’: Collaboration between government and companies key to producing cell-based meat at scale

Julieta Cardenas | 
Creating a technological (and delicious) wonder is one thing; scaling it to feed billions of people is another ...
Viewpoint: Why Italy’s cell-based meat ban is short sighted and alienates consumers

Viewpoint: Why Italy’s cell-based meat ban is short sighted and alienates consumers

Philip Gruber | 
Italian lawmakers banned cell-culture meat and blocked plant-based proteins from being labeled with meat terminology ...
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