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AgrotechThe New York start-up's AI platform designs cell lines, growth media and bioreactor conditions to license to food companies; the round, led by Azolla Ventures, funds a second lab in Thailand.
AgrotechThe 300,000-litre joint venture plant will make chlorella powder using sugar-mill sidestreams and light-assisted fermentation, with production due within 18 months.
Dutch pet food maker HenArt has built its new Levendo dog biscuit around Enifer's Pekilo mycoprotein, grown by fermenting a fungus on food and farm sidestreams, as Enifer readies a 3,000-tonne plant for 2027.
Tokyo start-up Kinish has raised JPY 490 million in a Series A first close to sell its rice-based ice cream and scale up molecular farming of casein in dwarf rice grown in plant factories.
The Boston startup known for lab-grown cotton multiplies cocoa bean cells in bioreactors, then ferments, roasts and grinds them into cocoa powder for its WunderHaus chocolate, launching in December.
AgrotechA Nofima PhD project extruded salmon and cod by-products with pea protein and wheat gluten into a fibrous product containing 25% fish, with a texture close to plant-based fish.
HealthA Harris Poll survey of 2,000 adults for the American Heart Association finds 90% have heard of ultra-processed foods but only a third know them well, as a federal definition stays in draft.
AgrotechScientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University fermented okara, the pulp left from soy milk and tofu, with oyster mushroom mycelium, raising its protein to about 28-30% and multiplying its umami compounds.
AgrotechThe Ministry of Future Affairs has launched the New Foods RegLab to give 10 startups making cultivated meat and precision-fermented proteins pre-submission advice on EU approval, and will share findings with EFSA.
AgrotechMycofeast has acquired Daisy Lab, a New Zealand startup that makes cow-free whey proteins by precision fermentation, led by a bovine lactoferrin programme it now plans to scale up and file with regulators.
AgrotechThe World Health Organization's Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health and the Good Food Institute APAC have signed a multi-year partnership that includes a first WHO report on plant-based, fermented and cultivated proteins in health policy.
AgrotechIsrael's Ever After Foods and Scotland's Roslin Technologies grew pig stem cells on an edible plant scaffold and report 19 times higher protein productivity than a stirred-tank benchmark, a result they say could cut the cost of cultivated meat if it holds at scale.
CropsFrench startup CarbonFarm, which uses AI on satellite images and field data to measure methane and water savings on smallholder rice farms and turn them into carbon credits, has raised €7 million ($7.8 million) to expand in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.
