How safe is cultured meat for people with meat allergies?

Comparison of allergen profiles of lab-grown beef with conventional steak reveals surprising differences in immune responses

20-Feb-2026 - As cultured meat moves toward commercialization, people want to understand how it impacts health compared to conventional animal meat. So, researchers publishing in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry conducted an initial food safety study to identify potential allergens in cultured ...

Failed startups become open-source gold mines for cultural flesh

Tufts University's new cell bank makes cultivated-meat tech public

15-Jan-2026 - For the last two years, the cultivated meat industry has been experiencing growing pains. Many startups have shrunk, shut down, or pivoted. Their advances aren’t going to waste, though. TheTufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture(TUCCA), which seeks to enable production of meat, milk, ...

Clever Carnivore Announces Scalable, Cost-Competitive and Delicious Cultivated Pork

Landmark scientific advances reduce key cost drivers

30-Jun-2025 - Clever Carnivore, a technological leader in the cultivated meat industry, reveals their breakthroughs in low-cost, scalable cultivated pork production. The company is on a mission to prove that cultivated meat is not only technically feasible but also can be produced cost-effectively at scale, ...

Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole meat can be grown in the lab

17-Apr-2025 - A bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams ofchickenmuscle for culturedmeatapplications. These results are publishing in the Cell Press journalTrends in Biotechnologyon April 16. “Our study ...

Lab-grown pork gets support from sorghum grain

30-Oct-2024 - Meatgrown in a lab isn’t science fiction anymore. Cultured meats have existed for over a decade, and as of 2023, you might even find lab-grownchickenin restaurants (in the U.S., at least). Now, with the literal support of plant-based scaffolds, “cleanmeat” options are expanding. Researchers ...

A non-allergenic wheat protein for growing better cultivated meat

30-Jan-2024 - As the world’s population increases, cultivated or lab-grownmeat— animal muscle and fat cells grown in laboratory conditions — has emerged as a potential way to satisfy future protein needs. And edible, inexpensive plant proteins could be used to grow these cell cultures. Now, researchers ...

Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation announces cultivated meat spinout company

Company introduces unique approach to sustainably produced meat

26-Jun-2023 - TheTerasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation(TIBI) is excited to unveil their first spinout company, Omeat, an organization dedicated to technology for the sustainable production of beef and other meats on a global scale. Omeat produces cultivated meat, using cost-effective, humane, and ...

Eat Just & Qatar Free Zones Authority Partner on Middle East Sustainable Food Hub

Regulatory approval for cultivated meat anticipated as company prepares for first-ever facility in the region

02-Sep-2021 - Eat Just, Inc., a company that applies cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods, announced today that it has partnered with Doha Venture Capital (DVC) and Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA), to build the first-ever cultivated meat facility in the Middle East ...

Hybrid plant-based and cultivated meat product from Nestlé could be “transformative”

15-Jul-2021 - The Good Food Institute Founder and President Bruce Friedrich says that Nestlé S.A.’s work to bring a hybrid plant-based and cultivated meat product to market could be transformative for the alternative protein industry and the global food system. “It appears that Nestlé is positioning itself to ...

Eat Just Granted World’s First Regulatory Approval for Cultured Meat

New cultured chicken technology delivers on safety, taste and nutrition

04-Dec-2020 - Eat Just, Inc., a company that applies cutting-edge science and technology to create healthier, more sustainable foods, today announced that, after a rigorous consultation and review process, its cultured chicken has been approved for sale in Singapore as an ingredient in chicken bites. The ...