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Luxurious, sustainable fragrances: Gucci develops perfume made from carbon monoxide waste from metal factories

John Cumbers | 
What if microbes could transform the pollution and stench of industrial waste into luxurious, sustainable fragrance? ...
Cultured meat’s hidden carbon footprint raises questions about whether it’s a sustainable substitute for retail beef

Cultured meat’s hidden carbon footprint raises questions about whether it’s a sustainable substitute for retail beef

Amy Quinton | 
Lab-grown meat, which is cultured from animal cells, is often thought to be more environmentally friendly than beef because it’s ...
Can lab-grown leather production be scaled up to meet massive materials demand of industry?

Can lab-grown leather production be scaled up to meet massive materials demand of industry?

Coreena Ford | 
Tyneside biotech business 3D Bio-Tissues say we are just a few years away from lab-grown leather goods after creating animal ...
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How long before lab-grown fish slows down overfishing?

Echo Xie | 
A team of researchers at Zhejiang University has grown China’s first centimetre-long fish fillets in the laboratory ...
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Cell-based meat: Why the FDA’s cultivated chicken safety clearance is only the first step in popularizing what many consumers still consider ‘just a lab experiment’

Natasha Piñon | 
Last fall, cultivated-meat company Upside Foods became the first in the U.S. to be viewed as safe for human consumption ...
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Baby formula shortage crisis: Lab-cultivated human breast milk could fill gaps in ‘vulnerable’ formula supply chains

Natasha Piñon | 
In 2020, in a nondescript office building in Durham, North Carolina, a team of scientists used cells to recreate sugar and ...
Electricity from thin air? Energy-producing bacteria has ‘potential to power small, sustainable air-powered devices in the future’

Electricity from thin air? Energy-producing bacteria has ‘potential to power small, sustainable air-powered devices in the future’

It may sound surprising, but when times are tough and there is no other food available, some soil bacteria can ...
How industrial waste from cheese-making could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels

How industrial waste from cheese-making could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels

Hope Kirwan | 
John Lucey, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Dairy Research, wants to turn whey into the chemicals used ...
3D-printed fish? Cultivated filets could preserve dwindling fish populations

3D-printed fish? Cultivated filets could preserve dwindling fish populations

Forget your hook, line and sinker. An Israeli foodtech company says it has 3D printed the first ever ready-to-cook fish ...
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Will plant-based seafood soon be on the menu?

Barry Teater | 
Pearlita has spent “months and months” experimenting with shellfish alternatives in its leased commercial kitchen at the Piedmont Food Processing ...
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3D-printed cell-based fish? Sounds bizarre, but it tastes like the real thing and could eventually help save our oceans

Dean Murray | 
Israeli firm Steakholder Foods announced that they’ve used 3D printing technology to make ready-to-cook cultivated grouper. They boast the taste and ...
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Can Hindus, Jews and Muslims eat cell-cultivated meat? Religions search for guidance as lab-grown food beckons

Laura Reiley | 
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate — a bellwether rabbinical council for religious certifications in Judaism — declared that an Israeli company’s lab-grown ...
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As plant-based protein demand grows, roadblocks limit scaling up: Price, regulation, nutrition and more

Oliver Morrison | 
In recent years consumer demand for plant-based protein has often outpaced the industry's supply chain capabilities. And as the alternative ...
CRISPR sausages? FDA approves the first livestock for food: gene-edited 'experimental pigs'

CRISPR sausages? FDA approves the first livestock for food: gene-edited ‘experimental pigs’

Sara Zaske | 
A sausage at Washington State University has made history. WSU received U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorization to have gene-edited ...
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Indoor plants do not improve air quality very much. Startup Neoplants has a genetic fix

Claire Evans | 
Neoplants’s marquee product, announced late last year, is the Neo P1, the first houseplant genetically engineered to remediate indoor air ...
Viewpoint: Italy’s lab grown meat ban follows in path of science rejectionism across Europe

Viewpoint: Italy’s lab grown meat ban follows in path of science rejectionism across Europe

Amanda Little | 
Italy’s right-wing government provoked immediate controversy when it proposed banning the production of lab-grown meats to “safeguard our nation’s heritage.” The farm ...
‘Cruelty-free’ lab-grown mini-organs could dramatically reduce need for animal testing

‘Cruelty-free’ lab-grown mini-organs could dramatically reduce need for animal testing

Nicole Axeworthy | 
The traditional way of testing vaccines involves injecting them into animals and waiting weeks or months for the result. When ...
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Converting agricultural waste into protein and other sustainable innovations

According to reports, approximately one-third of food is wasted when it goes from farm to fork, which could otherwise feed more than ...
Russia claims US is creating genetically-engineered bioweapons. What are the facts?

Russia claims US is creating genetically-engineered bioweapons. What are the facts?

Russian MPs have completed a probe into Washington's military-related biological activity at laboratories throughout Ukraine on the basis of the information ...
Forbidden meatball: Genetically-engineered wooly mammoth meat illustrates future of food

Forbidden meatball: Genetically-engineered wooly mammoth meat illustrates future of food

Prarthana Prakash | 
Australian cultured meat company Vow unveiled a meatball made of wooly mammoth meat and grown entirely in a lab. But ...
Viewpoint: ‘Italy’s scientifically-unfounded fight against cultured meat is futile’ — Why the country can’t afford to block sustainable livestock alternatives

Viewpoint: ‘Italy’s scientifically-unfounded fight against cultured meat is futile’ — Why the country can’t afford to block sustainable livestock alternatives

Alessio Dellanna | 
Italy is moving to become the first country in the world to ban its companies from producing lab-cultivated meat, threatening ...
Edible circuits: Food-fueled batteries could be safely used inside the body to power the future

Edible circuits: Food-fueled batteries could be safely used inside the body to power the future

Carolyn Wilke | 
Researchers have started crafting edible circuits and sensors that can be used in the body. But such devices need a ...
'Food grown in labs pose no unusual health risks': Joint Food and Agriculture Organization and and World Health Organization report

‘Food grown in labs pose no unusual health risks’: Joint Food and Agriculture Organization and and World Health Organization report

Cell-based food production, which is the field of growing animal agricultural products directly from cell cultures, has been explored as ...
Here’s how synthetic biology can support eco-friendly agriculture

Here’s how synthetic biology can support eco-friendly agriculture

Sylvain Gariel | 
Methane from cattle and livestock accounted for 37.5% of greenhouse gases in 2020. Added to this is the carbon footprint from gas ...
A four-step blueprint for synthetic biology innovators to disrupt the status-quo

This four-step blueprint can help synthetic biology innovators disrupt the status quo

Synthetic biology could disrupt some of the world’s biggest industries. Here are four steps to building a ‘syn-bio’ strategy ...
Clear plastic from slimy seaweed? Wild algae poised to become packaging alternative of the future

Clear plastic from slimy seaweed? Wild algae poised to become packaging alternative of the future

Megan Brownrigg | 
There’s seven million square kilometres of seaweed already growing around the world — about the same size as the Amazon ...
‘Growing chicken from animal cells': FDA appears poised to approve second US lab-grown meat

‘Growing chicken from animal cells’: FDA appears poised to approve second US lab-grown meat

Krissa Welshans | 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it has completed its second pre-market consultation with a ...
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