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The Good Food Institute @gfi.org · 1h

🌍 Big news on #WorldFoodDay!

GFI has partnered with Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture to make cultivated meat cell lines and serum-free media publicly available for researchers worldwide.

A leap forward for open science + alt protein innovation 🚀

Details: bit.ly/47qrHuK

Green background with white text: Breaking news. Cultivated cell lines freed up for use by entire sector. This move will save researchers years of R&D and millions in development costs.

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 3m

More information on the cell lines from our partners at Tufts University:

cellularagriculture.tufts.edu/resources/op...

Open Cell Bank | Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture

cellularagriculture.tufts.edu

Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 3m

The serum-free media formulations are open-source and can be viewed here:

gfi.org/resource/sus...

Suspension-adapted bovine cell lines - The Good Food Institute

GFI has acquired multiple bovine cell lines and media formulations previously developed by the company SCiFi Foods.

gfi.org

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 3m

While the pathway for commercial use is still pending, we anticipate being able to distribute to academic researchers soon. We encourage both academic and commercial entities interested in using the cells to join the wait list by filling out this form:

airtable.com/app8xEx3ruHg...

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 3m

Very excited to share that @gfi.org acquired suspension-adapted bovine cell lines & serum-free media from former startup SciFi Foods to share as resource tools to advance the entire ecosystem

A huge level-up for #cultivatedmeat R&D

Waitlist to use the cells below:
agfundernews.com/exclusive-op...

Exclusive: Open-source moment for cultivated meat as GFI releases SCiFi Foods’ cell lines to academia

Developing new cell lines takes time and money, two things the cultivated meat space sorely lacks, says The Good Food Institute (GFI).

agfundernews.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 1d

French #cultivatedmeat startup Gourmey merges with another French startup Vital Meat

Between them, the companies have 9 active regulatory filings across cultivated chicken/duck products

www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025...

Gourmey buys Vital Meat in major cultivated merger

Gourmey has bought Vital Meat. The two French companies, which make cultivated foie gras and cultivated chicken respectively, have combined infrastructure, cell lines, patents and regulatory applicati...

www.foodnavigator.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 6d

Encouraging to see the Indian government's Department of Biotechnology openly supporting the development of #cultivatedmeat 🇮🇳

One day we'll stop calling it lab-grown meat though🫠

More here: theprint.in/ground-repor...

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 8d

Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Cell growth modeling review for cultivated meat production: Recommendations to improve techno-economic models. After registering, you will receive a confirm...

Scaling cultivated meat cost-effectively requires predictive tools that can guide performance at unprecedented production volumes. In this webinar, GFI and BioFarm Designs will present findings from a...

zoom.us

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 8d

📈Join us for a webinar overview on Nov 4 of our new report on cell growth modeling for #cultivatedmeat📈

If you're interested in computational modeling or working in a lab & want to know how to design experiments to be more commercially-relevant and impactful, please attend!

Registration below.

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 10d

Fixing the food system addresses the root cause of many of the world's largest problems. An interview with GFI's new CEO:

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...

Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute’s Nigel Sizer

For more than three decades Nigel Sizer has orbited the front lines of environmental policy. His résumé spans forest conservation in Amazonia, the launch of Global Forest Watch at the World Resources ...

news.mongabay.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 18d

More here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a_2...

Michael Grunwald - Fixing Agriculture’s Climate Impact in "We Are Eating the Earth” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 18d

Finished @mikegrunwald.bsky.social's book, which shows the urgency to develop solutions to address agriculture's climate problem

It highlights the overlooked concept of carbon opportunity costs of land use & isn't afraid to say that grass-fed beef is a climate disaster. Recommended read!

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · 23d

Join us on Thursday to chat about process analytics and scale-up:

gfi.org/event/master...

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 16

Aleph Farms partners with the Cultured Hub, a shared co-manufacturing facility, to produce cultivated beef in Switzerland.

The company filed for regulatory approval in the region over two years ago.

www.greenqueen.com.hk/aleph-farms-...

Aleph Farms Eyes Europe with Cultivated Beef Facility in Switzerland

Israeli food tech startup Aleph Farms has struck a deal to produce its cultivated meat in Europe, setting up at The Cultured Hub facility in Kemptthal.

www.greenqueen.com.hk

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 15

Iceland's ORF Genetics raises €5M to scale up their platform to produce low-cost growth factors in barley.

Their products are already used in commercial cultivated meat processes.

agfundernews.com/orf-genetics...

ORF Genetics scales growth factor production for cultivated meat: ‘The question is not if this market will grow, but when'

ORF Genetics—a molecular farming company pioneering the production of growth factors in barley—has raised €5m ($5.9m) to scale production.

agfundernews.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Congrats to MissionBarns for making the first ever sale of cultivated pork. They are the 6th company to have sold cultivated meat around the world. Here's the current breakdown:

Coverage here: www.greenqueen.com.hk/exclusive-mi...

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 9

UK startup Cellular Agriculture aims to open new pilot facility in early 2026, with claims to have developed the world's longest hollow fiber bioreactor

Follows news of EdiMembre, a spinout from Merck, which has developed an edible hollow fiber reactor

cultivated-x.com/company-news...

Cellular Agriculture Ltd Strengthens Industry Position with New Facility and Breakthrough Bioreactor Systems - Cultivated X

UK-based Cellular Agriculture Ltd has announced a series of developments that advance its position as a technology provider for the cultivated food sector.

cultivated-x.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 5

I believe the concept involves more of a collective effort for all the supply chain elements. Not everything could or would be done on-site.

IDK, the Dutch seem to be pretty good at making food lol. Lots of concepts being tested throughout the industry. Gotta figure out what works/is possible.

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 5

The video on their website has a bit more for what is envisioned

It does assume that CM processes can be "tech transferred" in a way that is very low friction. And that we can readily use feedstocks grown on typical farms

Those assumptions can certainly be debated

www.respectfarms.com

RespectFarms enables cultivated meat farming

RespectFarms enables farmers and food producers to diversify their businesses to share in the promise of cultivated meat.

www.respectfarms.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Sep 5

€2M awarded to a collaborative project to develop the world's first cultivated meat farm in the Netherlands, with the aim of helping farmers diversify their business

Encouraging to see conventional and cultivated meat companies working together:

t.co/a4yJl7FcJg

https://vegconomist.com/cultivated-cell-cultured-biotechnology/cultivated-meat/consortium-cultivated-meat-farm-netherlands/

t.co

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Alt Protein Project, a collection of student groups, now has 76 active chapters at top Universities around the world

We recently added 13 more groups from the US, Canada, India, Turkey, Australia, Brazil, Italy, Nigeria, and the UK:

gfi.org/blog/the-alt...

The Alt Protein Project keeps growing—and so does its impact - The Good Food Institute

Thirteen new university groups join GFI’s Alt Protein Project, a global community of student leaders reimagining our food system.

gfi.org

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cultivated meatballs, bacon, and salami made without animal slaughter will soon be sold in U.S. grocery stores for the first time (one Sprouts market in Oakland).

The pig that donated the cells is still alive, living happily in upstate NY:

sf.gazetteer.co/some-pig

Some pig

San Francisco companies are creating cell-cultivated meats. Is this the future of nutrition for a hungry planet, or another Impossible dream?

sf.gazetteer.co

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dutch startup @meatable.bsky.social acquires cell lines and IP for non-GM differentiation strategies from UncommonBio, which has since pivoted away from #cultivatedmeat and into medicine:

agfundernews.com/meatable-acq...

Meatable acquires Uncommon Bio’s cultivated meat platform as latter pivots to therapeutics

Meatable has acquired the cultivated meat platform of UK-based Uncommon Bio, including key tech, IP assets, select cell lines, and key staff.

agfundernews.com

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to see @merckgroup's edible hollow fiber bioreactor project (EdiMembre) out in the real world after 5 yrs of internal development

The fiber-based bioreactors, made from legume proteins, can create cost-effective, structured #cultivatedmeat:

www.greenqueen.com.hk/merck-millip...

Merck Spinout Banks on Edible Membrane Tech for Lab-Grown Whole-Cut Meat

EdiMembre has spun off from Merck Group to commercialise its edible membrane tech for future foods, starting with whole-cut cultivated meat and high-protein pasta.

www.greenqueen.com.hk

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Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz.bsky.social · Aug 18

India opens new stem cell biobank to aid in development of its current and future agricultural sector, with cell line banking for cultivated meat as a key focus

www.greenqueen.com.hk/india-animal...

India Opens First Animal Stem Cell Biobank, With Cultivated Meat A Key Focus

India's cultivated meat industry just got a big boost, with a first-of-a-kind animal stem cell biobank listing proteins as a key priority.

www.greenqueen.com.hk

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