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The Fast Track to Market: How GMP-Grade Cell Lines from Nuvonis are Revolutionizing Cultivated Meat Production
The global food system faces a pressing need for sustainable innovation, driven by environmental and ethical concerns associated with conventional animal agriculture. While initiatives to enhance efficiency and reduce waste are crucial, the development of novel food products, particularly cultivated meat, offers a promising way to reduce environmental impact and diversify food sources. Cultivated meat, produced through the in vitro cultivation of animal cells, offers a unique approach to produce …
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 …
Bene Meat Technologies Unveils “Cutting-Edge” Cell Bank, Seeks FDA Approval for Cultivated Pet Food
Czech cultivated meat startup Bene Meat Technologies (BMT) has unveiled what it describes as a cutting-edge cell bank, for the long-term supply of cells for cultivating different meat products. Developed over extensive research, the cell bank grants access to a sufficient quantity and variety of cells for research and production. It holds over 5,000 samples of high-quality primary cells from various species taken from small tissue samples, minimizing animal impact. …
South Korea Designates Regulation-Free Zone for Cultivated Meat to Boost Production & Safety
The South Korean government has announced the designation of a special regulatory-free zone in Gyeongsangbuk-do province to accelerate the production and commercialization of cultivated meat in the country. The zone, officially named the Gyeongbuk Cell-Cultivated Foods Regulatory-Free Special Zone (RFSZ), aims to address the legal obstacles facing the development of cell culture food products, establish global standards for these novel foods, and develop a skilled workforce for the cultivated meat …
Mewery Announces Significant Progress in Cultivating Pork at Larger Scale
Czech cultivated meat company Mewery, known for its cultivated pork and microalgae burger, announces a key milestone in its product development: successfully establishing a stable cell line. The new cell line exhibits the most favorable response to Mewery’s proprietary co-cultivation technology, which involves pork cells and also microalgae cells used for a proprietary serum-free medium. Vladislav Strmiska, CSO at Mewery, comments: “This achievement represents another important step forward in our ongoing …
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 …