Cambridge Student Wins Award for Open-Source Cell Bank to Advance Cultivated Meat Research
Callan MacDonald, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, has won PETA’s first-ever Future Without Speciesism Cash Award for his AgriCell project, which could “revolutionize the cultivated meat industry, saving billions of animals.” AgriCell is a cell bank designed to standardize and archive primary cells — the building blocks for cultivated meat production — and provide a shared resource of reliable and well-characterized cells. The initiative seeks to address …