Multus Launches Scalable, Food-Grade Basal Media for Cultivated Meat
Multus Biotechnology, a UK company producing growth media solutions for the cultivated meat industry, has announced the launch of its food-grade basal media, DMEM/F12. The media was developed in collaboration with several global food and feed ingredient companies, using AI to identify functionally equivalent ingredients from the food industry to replace those traditionally used in biopharmaceutical production. It is scalable and provides essentialnutrients such as sugars, salts, minerals, and vitamins …
Multus Launches Animal-Free Alternative to Fetal Bovine Serum for Cultivated Meat
British biotech company Multus has launched Proliferum B, a new animal component-free alternative to fetal bovine serum (FBS) designed to accelerate cultivated meat production. Proliferum B, which is the first product developed using Multus’ machine learning-driven system, is said to address costs, reliability, and ethical concerns related to FBS. It accelerates early R&D without depending on the controversial and costly serum or having to develop a product. Co-founder and CEO Cai …
UK Biotech Multus Unveils World’s First Commercial-Scale Serum-Free Growth Media Facility
British biotech Multus has recently unveiled what it claims is the world’s first commercial-scale production plant for developing affordable, serum-free growth media for the cultivated meat industry. The exact location of the facility has not been revealed yet. This expansion comes after the company successfully raised £7.9 million in January to produce its growth media at scale, bolstered by a £2.15 million equity-free grant from Innovate UK through the EIC Accelerator. In …
UK: Multus and New Wave Biotech Merge in AI Partnership to Lower the Costs of Cultivated Meat
Multus, a UK growth media innovator for cultivated meat, and London-based New Wave Biotech, a leader in AI bioprocess optimization software, are joining forces to lower the costs of cultivated meat using AI. Multus develops food-safe, animal-free growth media for the cultivated meat industry through AI, lab automation, and novel ingredients. New Wave Biotech develops AI bioprocess optimization software to help biotech companies launch their products more quickly and at …
UK: Extracellular Launches Licence-Free Cell Banks to Support Cultivated Meat Research
UK CDMO Extracellular announces the launch of new low-cost cell banks — free from licensing or commercial restrictions — intended for early-stage cultivated meat companies and researchers. The cell banks offer high-quality cow, pig, and sheep primary cells isolated from fat, muscle, and bone marrow tissues. They were developed through a collaborative project with the British biotechnology company Multus. Backed by the Good Food Institute and New Harvest, the cell bank …
The Companies Removing Fetal Bovine Serum to Make Ethical, Slaughter-Free Meat
Last week, GOOD Meat received the first-in-the-world regulatory approval to use fetal bovine serum-free media in its cultivated poultry production process. With this significant milestone in the history of cultivated meat, we discuss the companies paving the way for ethical, slaughter-free meat. Removing fetal bovine serum (FBS) from cultivated meat production has been among the industry’s major challenges. FBS has been the default growth supplement for in vitro cell culture used by …
Multus Raises £7.9M for “First-of-its-Kind” Animal-Free Growth Media Facility
British biotechnology company Multus announces it has raised a £7.9 million funding round for the “first-of-its-kind” facility to produce food-safe, animal-free growth media for the cultivated meat industry. The round was led by Mandi Ventures and included Big Idea Ventures, SynBioVen, and Asahi Kasei. Additionally, Multus received an equity-free grant of £2.15 million from Innovate UK through the EIC Accelerator, which funds and invests in game-changing innovation startups through the EIC …