Synthetic Biology
Viewpoint: Why recent setbacks won’t derail cultured meat revolution
Since Mark Post first introduced his cultured meat burger in 2013, the industry has attracted nearly US$3 billion in private ...
‘Affront to nature and creation’: Republicans launch war on lab-grown meat as a ‘liberal conspiracy’ even though it is not for sale yet
Cultured meat is the culture wars' newest bone of contention. Republican efforts to ban and even outlaw production of the ...
Eat what you want while staying healthy? Here’s how scientists are working to transform the sugar that you eat into fiber
We all know that too much sugar is bad for us. It can lead to weight gain, obesity, type 2 ...
Nature’s lost scents: Perfumes made to replicate extinct plants provide an olfactory glimpse into the past
“Meet Invisible Woods: a clean, refreshing scent revived from extinct flower DNA,” beneath an image of “origin flower” Wendlandia angustifolia ...
Vibrant all-natural dyes harvested from microorganisms could bring sustainability to fashion and food industries
Biotechnology is revolutionizing the world of natural color production, bringing forth a new era of captivating shades. Advances such as ...
Coming era of cattle farming: Genetically engineered dairy cow produces human insulin in milk
Scientists generated a transgenic cow that produces milk with human insulin. Their research may help patients with diabetes ...
Here are the states trying to ban cell-based meat, and why
Months in jail and thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees—those are the consequences Alabamians and Arizonans could soon ...
Here are 5 new biotech ag products that consumers might fall in love with
After almost three decades of providing solutions to farmers’ concerns, biotech experts are now releasing and developing a new set ...
Harnessing algae opens a new frontier in sustainable meat-like protein
Evidently, the need for alternatives to traditional meat and cheese has been a growing concern for health and the environment ...
Cell-based protein for your pup? Cultivated meat companies see large potential market in pet food
The pet food market is becoming a target for cultivated meat; a small number of lab meat producers are targeting ...
Want to sample lab-grown meat? Too late — experimental tastings at premier restaurants around the world are on pause. Here’s why, and what the future holds
July 2023 was a landmark moment for the cultivated meat industry. For the first time, meat brewed directly from chicken ...
Kosher animals? Here’s why not all cellular-based meat will pass muster with Jewish law
From the perspective of Jewish law, lab-grown meat poses several novel questions, most obviously if it’s kosher. The short answer ...
Arizona joins slate of states pushing cell-based meat bans
Arizona, along with Florida and Texas, is the next state to propose stringent laws like censorship and bans for cultivated ...
Why gene editing could slingshot cell-based meat to economic viability
A shocking report from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that cultivated meat could reduce emissions by 96 percent. However, currently, the ...
Religious Muslims cleared to consume lab-grown beef if origins of cells are from ‘humanely-killed’ cows
Lab-grown meat is a rising trend among those looking to reduce their carbon footprint ...
Viewpoint: Some Republican-governed states want to ban or limit sales of cell-cultivated meat. Here’s why that’s a bad idea
At the end of January, Florida’s House and the Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill introduced by Republican Rep. Danny ...
Livestock industry targets Florida in campaign to block cultivated meat innovation
If Florida bans cultivated meat, it will be the first in the nation to do so. With food scarcity challenging ...
Lab-cultured eel alternative to an over-fished delicacy? Israel-Japan partnership looks to 2025 launch
Forsea Foods, the only known company working on cell-based eel, has created the first prototype of its cultivated eel. The ...
‘Cell-based meat grows like a tumor’: A new ad campaign targeting cultivated meat industry criticized as ‘deceptive and unscientific’
A new public information campaign against cultivated—or “lab-grown”—meat is being run by a group with close links to a controversial ...
USDA: Why cell-based meat is critical to address climate change
In a historic move, USDA-NIFA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) program invested in cultivated meat research ...
Viewpoint: As concerns about plastic pollution in the ocean mount, there is a yet untapped solution — genetically-engineered bacteria that “eat” plastic. Will activists and the government block it?
Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ...
Israel becomes first nation to approve a cell-based beef product
Aleph Farms has announced that Israel’s government agency has issued regulatory approval for Aleph Cuts, the “world’s first” cell-based beef ...
Viewpoint: Proposed Arizona lab-grown meat ban protects cattle ranch interests and holds back needed food innovation
House Bill 2121 has been introduced in the Arizona legislature and would ban the sale or production of cultivated meat ...
Methane gas from cow burps and other sources accelerates global warming. Here’s a genetic tweaking technique that could transform it into organic fertilizer
A Bay Area biotech firm is working on a clever strategy to capture a worrisome greenhouse gas, and in the ...
Modernizing ancient techniques: How harnessing microbes could make alternative proteins more palatable
There’s a growing category of foods using an age-old technique that experts say could be a dark horse in the ...
Weight-loss drugs, malaria vaccines and more: CRISPR innovations headline the science breakthroughs of 2023
CRISPR is the year’s top breakthrough not only because of heroic work done in the past 12 months, but also ...
Pondering the future of fruit in a climate-challenged world: Can we grow fruit without trees?
Plant Cell Culture technology utilizes the ability of a single plant cell to produce multiple cells. In the lab, we ...