🎥Hoxton Farms tackles fat, the final frontier for alt meat
May 13, 2024
“Meat alternatives don’t taste good enough, and it’s the key reason consumers don’t repeat purchase,” claims cultivated fat co Hoxton Farms.
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Tag: synthetic biology
Dextrose… with a 40% lower carbon footprint? Green Plains gears up to launch ‘truly disruptive’ tech at ethanol plant in Iowa
May 8, 2024
Green Plains will be able to produce dextrose with significantly lower capital and carbon intensity vs the standard wet milling process, claims the ethanol producer.
Shiru harnesses AI to launch protein discovery platform: ‘It’s like Amazon for proteins…’
May 1, 2024
Shiru has also developed AI and ML-based models to predict protein expression in microbial systems, helping firms determine the most cost effective way to produce target proteins at scale.
Caladan Bio raises $5m seed round to build next generation benchtop bioreactors
May 1, 2024
Caladan Bio has developed a lower-cost benchtop bioreactor system designed to enhance data capture and increase experimentation throughput.
Exclusive: Perfect Day sued by manufacturing partner for fraud and breach of contract. Olon claims $112m in unpaid bills, $32m in damages
April 15, 2024
According to Olon, it is owed $112m in unpaid manufacturing fees, unreimbursed CapEx, raw materials costs and other costs, plus an estimated $32m in damages resulting from Perfect Day’s alleged fraud.
Casein… from potatoes? Molecular farming startup Finally Foods emerges from stealth
April 2, 2024
The Israeli startup leverages AI technology from computational biology specialist Evogene it claims will dramatically speed up the R&D process.
🎥Vivici CEO on whey from fermentation: “If we narrow the message only to ‘animal-free,’ we’re pigeonholing ourselves”
March 26, 2024
If the marketing of whey from fermentation is too narrowly focused on the ‘animal-free’ aspect, it potentially limits the market, says Netherlands-based startup Vivici.
Exclusive: Triplebar Bio teams up with FrieslandCampina Ingredients to make lactoferrin via precision fermentation
March 19, 2024
By producing it in fermentation tanks using microbial strains optimized by Triplebar Bio, FrieslandCampina Ingredients hopes to to unlock new markets for lactoferrin.
Tierra Biosciences raises $11.4m series A to expand designer protein-to-order platform
March 12, 2024
Ditch the cell, and use its internal machinery to produce proteins, and you can slash the cost and increase the speed of protein synthesis, says Tierra Biosciences.
Data snapshot: Tracking a decade of growth in Bioenergy & Biomaterials, the top-funded agrifoodtech category of 2023
February 28, 2024
For the second year in a row, the sector saw an increase in VC investment despite an overall decline in agrifoodtech funding.
What is precision fermentation? Trade associations nail down definition
February 26, 2024
According to the new definition, precision fermentation combines the process of traditional fermentation with the latest advances in biotechnology.
Fonterra/DSM backed startup Vivici unveils whey protein from fermentation: ‘We are already at commercially viable titers’
February 19, 2024
Vivici has been able to move unusually rapidly by leveraging its founders’ expertise in dairy proteins and industrial-scale biomanufacturing, says CEO Stephan van Sint Fiet.
Cultivated seafood co Finless Foods reduces headcount
February 5, 2024
Finless Foods is not commenting on rumors that it is reducing headcount to extend runway, raise capital, and rebuild at a later time.
The EVERY Company to ‘launch with multinationals’ this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity for animal free egg proteins
February 2, 2024
According to its CEO: “We still have quite a bit of runway as we’ve been very lean. Part of that is because we’ve never invested in large-scale production capacity [in-house] and we’ve never entered the B2C world.”
Nature’s night lights: Light Bio’s bioluminescent plants show ‘magic’ of biotech, says CEO
February 1, 2024
50,000 petunia plants that glow in the dark are being made available direct to consumers in the US via Light Bio’s website at $29/plant.
Real coffee… without the beans? Pluri deploys plant cell culture to futureproof coffee supply chain
January 31, 2024
But does it make sense to grow a commodity ingredient such as coffee in a bioreactor, or does plant cell culture only make sense for ultra-high-value botanicals such as saffron?
Phytolon plans US debut of ‘cost competitive’ natural food colors via precision fermentation
January 31, 2024
Phytolon aims to launch natural colors produced by genetically engineered baker’s yeast in the US this year, pending regulatory approvals.
Ayana Bio signs JDA to develop saffron via plant cell culture, taps into interest in natural appetite suppressants
January 25, 2024
Ayana Bio has signed a deal with Wooree Green Science to develop saffron and other bioactives made via plant cell culture.
Elo Life Systems raises $20.5m in series A2, aims to launch natural sweetener in 2026: ‘Everyone is trying to reduce sugar’
January 24, 2024
The capital injection will also help advance work to develop Cavendish bananas engineered to resist the devastating fungal disease Fusarium wilt.
Imagindairy acquires industrial-scale precision fermentation lines for animal-free whey: ‘This will allow us to support mass-market adoption’
January 17, 2024
The Israeli startup expects products containing its animal-free whey protein to launch in the US within the year.
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