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Pairwise sees ‘dramatic uptick’ in CRISPR licensing as gene editing moves beyond row crops

Pairwise has seen a surge in licensing deals for its gene editing platform over the past 12-18 months and now has 25 licensees, says COO Ian Miller, PhD.

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Ian Miller, COO, Pairwise 2 Image credit Pairwise

Quorn Foods’ UK retail recovery gathers pace, but foodservice ‘likely to get worse before it gets better’

Quorn’s new protein bites reach a new set of consumers and command higher price points and margins, says the alt meat firm.

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Pairwise sees ‘dramatic uptick’ in CRISPR licensing as gene editing moves beyond row crops

Quorn Foods’ UK retail recovery gathers pace, but foodservice ‘likely to get worse before it gets better’

Guest article: The field day is the new term sheet; how growers are vetting ag robotics for real-use application

dsm-firmenich takes Protopia yeast protein to industrial scale, targets fishmeal and whey

GRAS overhaul: less onerous than feared, but legal battle likely

Inside Nanovel’s bid to crack robotic citrus harvesting

Offbeast develops ‘world’s first’ beef-plant hybrid whole cuts

AgriFood Signals: Ranch tech startup Ranchbot nets $15m, Target hires chief AI officer, plant cell culture megadeal

Millow raises $2.3m, gears up for commercial launch of minimally processed alt meat

Swiss alt meat startup Planted scales fermented whole-cut platform, eyes B2B partnerships

From GLP-1s to biosensors: Inside Cornucopian Capital’s precision health playbook

“Climate resilience” platform ClimateAi winds down operations

New FCC proposal could ‘retroactively ban’ some existing ag spray drones, warns DJI

Cultivated Food Labs advances faba bean hull-based cocoa alternative

BioScout raises $4.8m for early warning system for fungal pathogens

AgriFood Signals: Eatable Adventures launches accelerator, Ambrook raises $30m, LIVEKINDLY acquires Dalco

Plantible raises $35m in debt, equity, to increase RuBisCO protein production fivefold

Beyond Meat leans into Europe, Canada, as US sales continue to slide

Black Sheep Foods bets on ‘TVP 2.0’ as hybrid meat gains traction

Economics trump environment when it comes to commercializing regenerative ag: report

Waste to value: Hyfé expands refinery model to extract fibers and bioactives from food side streams

Aleph Farms plans 2027 cultivated beef launch in Singapore after securing green light from regulators

Cultivated meat deep dive: After the crash, who’s still standing?

Indoor ag heavyweight 80 Acres Farms to cease operations

InsectBiotech Raises $8.3m to scale BSFL production in Andalusia, Spain

Micropep kickstarts global regulatory registration of its peptide-based biofungicide

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