Growth Factors

‘BioBetter has the key to scale-up cultivated meat’: An innovative approach to growth factors could cut cultured meat costs

12-Sep-2022 By Katy Askew

BioBetter is a food tech start-up that aims to address one of the biggest bottlenecks facing the cultured meat sector: the high cost and low availability of growth factors. A fresh round of funding positions it to do just that.

Could fruit flies slash the cost of growth media for cell cultured meat? Future Fields thinks outside the box

14-Feb-2022 By Elaine Watson

Right now, the pricier components of growth media – the nutrient-rich broth used to feed cells that will turn into cultivated meat – are typically produced by armies of microbes engineered to churn out recombinant proteins in big steel bioreactors. But...

‘A biological breakthrough…’ UPSIDE Foods hails animal-component-free cell media for cell cultured (aka cultivated) meat

09-Dec-2021 By Elaine Watson

UPSIDE Foods’ cell media – the nutrient-rich broth it uses to feed cells that will turn into cell-cultured or cultivated meat – is now 100% ‘animal component free,’ says the California-based firm, which described the milestone as a “biological breakthrough.”

CellRx on a mission to slash cost of growth factors used in cell-cultured meat production

15-Mar-2021 By Elaine Watson

For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says UK-based CellRx, which says it can produce...