What the future looks like with the new normal of hotter, drier and longer droughts
GFI's Emma Ignaszewski explains how alternative proteins can act as a key climate solution as global demand for meat continues to rise.
Cultivated
Charting the course toward an alt protein economy
Dara HomerLearn how GFI is connecting food system change makers around the world
Consumer education on the food safety of cultivated meat
Consumer education on the food safety of cultivated meat can positively impact consumer acceptance when sufficient information is provided. Additional research and efforts to increase transparent science communication on the food safety benefits of cultivated meat are needed.
Ensuring appropriate food safety controls for cultivated meat
Sterilization guidelines from well-established biomedical and food industries can act as helpful templates for safe cultivated meat production. However, more research is needed to identify potentially novel production hazards for regulators to understand the unique requirements for cultivated meat.
Incorporating growth factors into scaffolds to reduce costs and introduce spatial heterogeneity
Growth factors (GFs) can be incorporated into scaffolds as a strategy for both reducing costs and improving product quality of cultivated meat. Open-access research is needed to test the feasibility of this strategy and determine the most appropriate methods.
Scaffolds and structural approaches to optimize fat distribution and content in cultivated meat
The inclusion of fat and marbling in cultivated meat is likely to increase its flavor, texture, and consumer appeal. Structural approaches using edible microcarriers, hydrogels, and 3D bioprinting present promising options to support fat cell growth and reduce buoyancy in culture for integrating fat into cuts of meat, but more research is needed to optimize conditions.
The Business of Alt Protein: Finding and financing biomanufacturing capacity
Join GFI and Synonym, a company developing, financing, and building commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities, to learn about the current state of global fermentation capacity and how productization is the key to unlocking the capital needed to bring more infrastructure online.
The Business of Alt Protein: Finding and financing biomanufacturing capacity
Join GFI and Synonym, a company developing, financing, and building commercial-scale biomanufacturing facilities, to learn about the current state of global fermentation capacity and how productization is the key to unlocking the capital needed to bring more infrastructure online.
Promoting stemness and proliferation in fish cell cultures
Efficient and cost-effective cultivated fish production will require precise optimization to encourage fast proliferation and highly efficient use of inputs while preventing premature differentiation. A variety of strategies can be employed to adjust various factors that contribute to these properties, including optimizing the starting cell line, improving the composition of the proliferation medium, and exploring the possibility of transdifferentiating easy-to-grow cell lines like fibroblasts into myogenic and adipogenic lineages.
How Israel became the global center for alternative meat tech
GFI Israel's Nir Goldstein shares why Israel has such strong government support for alternative proteins.
