Afterlife Ag collects food waste from restaurants to grow gourmet mushrooms it then sells back to restaurateurs, creating a circular solution.
There are multiple ways to extend the shelf-life of fresh produce moving in bulk through the supply chain, but precious few options once it arrives at the back door of a restaurant, claims Prism.
“But one thing I will say,” says Dr. David Kaplan, “I don’t think stir tank reactors that have been used in pharma are going to work here. They’re just too expensive.”
UPSIDE Foods has engaged in a fresh round of layoffs in a bid to extend its runway as it expands its facility in Emeryville, California.
And businesses that don’t engage now risk being left behind, says Justin Honaman: ‘What are you doing today so you are not obsolete tomorrow?’
Israeli startup Ever After Foods has just secured a $10m capital injection to scale patented tech it claims can slash capex and opex costs in the nascent—but already beleaguered—cultivated meat industry.
From seaweed to selective breeding, multiple approaches are being tested to cut methane emissions from belching ruminants. But could editing the genes of the microbes responsible for the problem change the game?
When it comes to methane emissions, most people think of oil, coal, gas and burping cows, says Louise Parlons Bentata at UK-based startup Bluemethane. What they often forget, she says, is water.
“If we had American-made drones using American-made parts with American-made software that were as affordable and as good as DJI, we wouldn’t have an issue,” says Russell Hedrick. “But right now, they don’t exist.”
The patented technology enables beneficial bacteria to penetrate the living tissue of fruits and vegetables and serve as endophytes: microbes that live inside plants.
Regulatory affairs experts are closely watching the lawsuit amid growing scrutiny of carbon neutral claims. In this case, the claim was certified by a high-profile third party: The Carbon Trust.
Cromatic’s cloud-based vendor discovery platform hosts the largest curated database of global CROs and CDMOs in the life sciences industry, claims the California-based startup
Proposed legislation targeting Chinese drone maker DJI Technologies could have a devastating effect on US agriculture, claim firms supplying the drones to farmers.
The PTAB has invalidated the bulk of the claims in an Impossible Foods US patent following a challenge by Motif FoodWorks but declined to review six other patents at issue in their IP dispute.
Palacios’ Spanish omelets are sold in a ready-to-eat format in retail and foodservice locations in multiple countries.
In court docs filed today, Perfect Day accuses manufacturing partner Olon of breach of contract, fraud, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
“We see the relatively undeveloped nature of the mesquite supply chain as both one of our biggest opportunities as a business and one of our biggest risks,” say Mez Foods cofounders Bob and Ben Schultz.
“We had the human genome project,” says Dr. Claus Felby. “This is the planetary genome project… we are mapping everything in a given ecosystem.”
The judge handling a protracted IP dispute between fungi-fueled alt meat players Meati Foods and The Better Meat Co has thrown out Meati’s claims to BMC’s patents.
“It was probably around 2013 or 2014 when I was at Monsanto that it became really clear that CRISPR was going to matter” for plant breeding, says Pairwise cofounder and CEO Dr. Tom Adams.
