Why Precision Fermentation’s Next Breakthrough Isn’t Protein
Read time: 5 minutes Highlights Precision fermentation is moving from replacing ingredients to rebuilding how food performs. Fats may deliver the next major commercial breakthrough:...
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Project Hyperion & cutting edge FoodTech
250 year multigenerational spaceship to another planet! The Project Hyperion competition brief by The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) for the 250 year interstellar journey...
VC Investment in alternative proteins
Recently Steve Molino commented on LinkedIn on VC investment in alternative proteins. A few thoughts on the data: 1 Cultivated Meat – With the culture...
The Commercialisation of Synthetic Biology
“Synbio will eat the world, and the world will eat synbio.” The commercialisation of Synthetic Biology is accelerating and revealing it’s full impact on the...
Periodic Table of Precision Fermentation
An amazing interactive “Periodic Table Of Precision Fermentation” from RethinkX. Just go to the site and hover over a category and it highlights the relevant...
Biotech dairy waste reduction
Upcycling of dairy products like whey and casein is traditionally expensive and energy intensive. This often results in potentially valuable products going to waste. Foremost Farms...
Alternative protein infrastructure is the key
Busting the infrastructure barrier! As I’ve written before, alternative protein infrastructure, not technology, is now the biggest barrier to the adoption of alternative proteins and...
Honey truffles as a sweetener
Colorado based company MycoTechnology, Inc. has isolated a new protein sweetener from Honey Truffles. They say that “While it has the same calories as other proteins, it...
Technology transparency is key
Technology transparency is key to consumer acceptance of gene manipulation being used to make their food. The key phrase in a recent article and the...
Power from air?
I’ve written before about “food from air” which is the food extension of the “power-to-x” trend in renewable energy. But of course you need the...