Cell Cultured Meat

Cell-based disruption: How many factories, and at what capacity, are required to supply 10% of the meat market?

13-Aug-2021 By Flora Southey

If the cultivated meat industry were to set the ambitious target of supplying 10% of the global meat market, how much product would be required? How many factories, containing how many bioreactors, would need to be built? And where?

‘Our goal is to make cultured meat affordable for everyone…’ Future Meat Technologies opens facility, gears up for 2022 launch

23-Jun-2021 By Elaine Watson

Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies has opened what it claims is the first ‘industrial’ cell-cultured meat facility, capable of producing 500 kilos of meat a day (the equivalent of around 5,000 hamburgers), as it gears up for a US launch next year,...

When will cell-cultured meat reach price parity with conventional meat?

15-Mar-2021 By Elaine Watson

Cell-cultured meat could be cost competitive with some forms of conventional meat within a decade, according to two new studies from Dutch consultancy CE Delft using data from 16 companies* active in the field including five startups, although the authors...

CellRx on a mission to slash cost of growth factors used in cell-cultured meat production

15-Mar-2021 By Elaine Watson

For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says UK-based CellRx, which says it can produce...

Cultured chicken hybrid: KFC develops 3D-printed nuggets from chicken cells and plants

20-Jul-2020 By Flora Southey

What do you get when you cross chicken cells with plant-based ingredients and 3D printing technology? KFC collaborates with biotech research lab 3D Bioprinting Solutions in Moscow to bring hybrid nuggets to the Russian market.

Cell-based meat in focus: In conversation with Meatable, Finless Foods, New Age Meats

11-Feb-2020 By Elaine Watson

While a new cell-based meat company emerges from stealth mode almost every month, the amount of money invested in the embryonic sector to date pales in comparison to the megabucks poured into plant-based meat over the past couple of years. So is slaughter-free...