GFI acquires SCiFi Foods’ cell lines, media formulations
The Good Food Institute (GFI) has acquired commercially relevant bovine cell lines and serum-free growth media formulations from the defunct…
Cultivated meat merger: Gourmey buys Vital Meat
Cultivated meat start-up Gourmey, which specializes in foie gras, has merged with cultivated chicken producer Vital Meat to form a…
Vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘It’s not our moment’
Plant-based meat alternatives, once hailed as a solution to America’s environmentally damaging appetite for conventional meat, are facing a severe…
Young consumers’ perceptions of and preferences for alternative meats: an empirical study in Japan and China
Chinese consumers demonstrated greater familiarity with and had a higher consumption rate of meat alternatives, particularly plant-based options, compared to…
Lallemand Opens New Laboratory in France for Formulation of Microorganism-Based Food Solutions
Lallemand Specialty Cultures, a division of the microorganism and derivative producer Lallemand, has inaugurated a new 400-square-meter R&D laboratory in…
Cultivated Protein: Scaling Innovation into Industry
The “Demonstrating Scale-Up in Cultivated Food: A Biomanufacturing Conference” held in Penang highlighted that the cultivated protein sector is transitioning…
Extract from Top stories in Cultivated Meat – September 2025
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New Food Innovation Park for Sustainable Proteins to Be Established in the Netherlands
Contract research company NIZO is spearheading the transformation of its Ede, Netherlands site into a food innovation park dedicated to…
Mission Barns Announces “World’s First” Retail Sale of Cultivated Meat in California
Bites from the Barn at Berkeley Bowl, an independent grocery store in California, from November 2025 to February 2026. The…
Agrifoodtech investment models need ‘a rethink’
At the World Agri-Tech summit in London, a panel of investors agreed that the agrifoodtech investment model requires a “rethink”…