The post-pandemic future of food
Listen to my interview with Steve Wells, co-editor of Aftershocks and Opportunities 2: Navigating the Next Horizon, about my chapter on ‘Five Technologies Shaping the Post-Pandemic...
Tag : Synthetic Biology
Genetic engineering isn’t a dirty word
Hooray! Thanks Elaine and Magi, an article that actually mentions that “genetically engineered” organisms are used rather than a euphemism like simply “engineered” or “precision fermentation” As Magi...
Growing cheese in plants?
Growing cheese in plants? That’s what startup Nobell Foods are doing; well they’re growing bovine casein in plants, soybeans to be exact. They came out of stealth...
Synbio will eat the world, and the world will eat synbio
As I’ve said before, “Synbio will eat the world, and the world will eat synbio” One of my favourite synbio ag companies, Pivot Bio, demonstrates this...
The death of a thousand cuts?
The death of a thousand cuts as another source of animal ag value could disappear with Geltor Inc. releasing its PrimaColl synthetic biology (synbio) derived...
Clara Foods escapes the scale up Valley of Death
Simply the best, and the biggest. The inability to scale up kills the competitiveness of many new technologies. Not so for Clara Foods with their partnership...
Synthetic biology will eat the world
Synthetic biology company bit.bios new opti-ox™ platform could provide a major boost to cultivated meat production. This is because their system has the potential to significantly...
Synthetic Biology needs transparency
I’m quite frustrated about constantly hearing podcasts and articles like this one (whose content I do agree with) that mention “fermentation” and completely gloss over...
Perfect Day animal free whey based ice cream
Synbio continues to go mainstream with Perfect Day’s animal free whey protein now used in Graeter’s Ice Cream. Interestingly it’s advertised as vegan “Rather than the...
Franchising Fermentation
Franchising fermentation, is this the future of synthetic biology? Could it create a “responsive, flexible, and distributed biomanufacturing ecosystem”, including food? As this article in SynBioBeta...