Matt Reynolds
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
July 2023 was a landmark moment for the cultivated meat industry. For the first time, meat brewed directly from chicken ...
‘Cell-based meat grows like a tumor’: A new ad campaign targeting cultivated meat industry criticized as ‘deceptive and unscientific’
A new public information campaign against cultivated—or “lab-grown”—meat is being run by a group with close links to a controversial ...
Viewpoint: Fake meat doesn’t taste anything like the real thing. Pilot project putting pig genes in soybeans hopes to change the status quo
Paladini is the CEO of Moolec Science, a molecular farming firm that uses crops to grow animal proteins. The idea is ...
Investigation: ‘Everything is made by hand’ — Lab grown meat startup Upside Foods presents high-tech facade, but its ‘futuristic factory’ is a lie
“We’re starting to show, from day one, what this whole industry is about,” Upside Foods cofounder and CEO Uma Valeti ...
Human age limit: Are supercentenarians simply statistical outliers?
For researcher Jean-Marie Robine, each supercentenarian is a crucial datapoint in the quest to answer a big question: Is there ...
As record-breaking drought persists, legal battle rages over approving GMO grain in Kenya
The record-breaking drought is forcing Kenya to confront a controversial topic: whether the country should grow genetically modified (GM) crops ...
Viewpoint: Facing unprecedented drought, Europe debates embracing sustainable, climate-flexible, insecticide-reducing genetically modified crops
Europe’s summer of drought has been impossible to ignore. Rivers dried up, exposing the skeletons of warships and ancient buildings. Images captured by ...
Viewpoint: With Europe suffering unprecedented drought, EU politicians are seriously debating the use of sustainable, drought-tolerant, low-insecticide use genetically modified crops
Europe’s summer of drought has been impossible to ignore. Rivers dried up, exposing the skeletons of warships and ancient buildings. Images captured by ...
Powering plants with solar panels instead of photosynthesis might increase crop efficiency. But are companies overhyping potential?
The researchers used solar panels to run a machine that converts carbon dioxide, electricity, and water into acetate—a molecule that ...
Eating poultry helps cut greenhouse gas impact of beef. Now a start-up is increasing production – by grinding up chicken bones
Fifty years ago, poultry made up about 15 percent of all the world’s meat. Now that fraction has ballooned to ...
Biofuels reconsidered: Do we grow too much corn in the United States?
The supposed benefit of biofuel is that, although it still releases carbon dioxide when it burns, that carbon was drawn ...
How gene editing could create carbon-sucking trees to help address the climate crisis
Of all the potential fixes for the climate crisis, none has captured hearts and minds quite like tree planting. It’s ...
Breeding a tastier bug: Insect farming may not replace crops and livestock, but they have a bright future in the food chain
Christine Picard's search for a better bug to feed the world starts with dead bodies. Well, not the corpses themselves, ...
Replacing chemical pesticides? Sprays made from RNA may be the next generation of plant pest control
The downsides of existing fungicides and pesticides are well-known: Residue from the sprays can build up in the environment and ...
Why the UK’s announced embrace of CRISPR gene editing food revolution likely won’t go as smoothly as hoped
“Let's start now to liberate the UK's extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules, and let's develop the blight-resistant crops ...
Search for the perfect cell-donor cow: Why cultured lab-grown beef is the future of sustainable meat
At a glance, the formula for cultured – or lab-grown – meat is simple. Take some animal cells, feed them ...
Viewpoint: Great Barrington Declaration on herd immunity falsely suggests a scientific divide over if we can achieve it and how
[The Great Barrington Declaration] suggests that scientists fall into two camps: those who are pro-lockdown and those who think we ...
CRISPR explained: Everything you need to know
Here’s everything you need to know about the complex and sometimes controversial technology driving the gene-editing revolution. CRISPR evolved as ...
World’s most popular banana faces extinction. Can gene editing save it?
Suring the summer of 1989, Randy Ploetz was in his laboratory just south of Miami, when he received a package ...
