The Good Food Institute has recently launched a competitive $3 million scholarship program to support open-source research on plant-based and cultured meat. The 24 universities selected for the programme have now been announced. They have beaten the competition because of their technical expertise, research capacity and partnerships with the private sector.
SuperMeat’s Government-Backed Open-Source System to Accelerate Cultivated Meat Commercialization
The SuperMeat open-source system claims to reduce production costs for the cultivated meat industry and is supported by Israeli Innovation Authority Grant Israeli food tech SuperMeat has received a grant from the Israeli Innovation Authority to establish what it claims will be the world’s largest open-source screening system to aid the entire cultivated meat industry. SuperMeat claims its new high throughput screening system for optimizing cultivated meat feed ingredients will accelerate the burgeoning cultivated industry towards commercial viability. The fresh grant funds will support the open high-throughput screening system for cultivated meat feed ingredients, helping to significantly reduce costs of what is the largest expense in cultivated meat production. Despite a trend in falling production costs, the level is still too high and currently presents …