NEW TECH FOODS

Malaysia’s Islamic authority has issued a landmark ruling allowing cultivated meat to be considered halal, marking a first for a Muslim-majority country.

Cultigen Group has launched Cellbase, a B2B marketplace designed to help cultivated meat companies source equipment and materials more efficiently.

A dairy farm in Zuid-Holland has become the first in the world to produce cultivated meat on-site, through a collaboration between start-up RespectFarms and farmer Corné van Leeuwen.

Re:meat has rebranded as Curve, marking a strategic shift toward enabling scalable and cost-efficient biomanufacturing of proteins across multiple industries.

JSBio has announced an expanded focus on cellular agriculture, leveraging its biopharma expertise to advance the scalability and cost-efficiency of cultivated meat production.

University College London (UCL) biochemical engineering student Ayaan Shah has developed edible hydrogel scaffolds designed to give cultivated meat realistic structure, as part of a summer research project presented at the European Laidlaw Foundation Conference at Durham University.

Icelandic biotech company ORF Genetics has raised €5 million to expand production of its MESOkine growth-factor portfolio for the cultivated meat sector.

Swedish cultivated food start-up Re:meat is set to establish its first pilot 'Re:meatery' at Lund University’s Prepilot Plant after securing €1 million in an oversubscribed funding round earlier this year.