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Explore articles, blog posts, industry insights and opinion pieces by the Cell Ag Greece team.

Empowering Cellular Agriculture Through Collaboration

Empowering Cellular Agriculture Through Collaborationby Athanasios Garoufas, Chief Business Development Officer at Gelatex Technologies It was in 2020 when I first recognized the immense potential of...

books to read

Some great books if you want to read about Cellular Agriculture and Food

Paul Shapiro

Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World

Kris Spiros

The Next Generation of Meat From Cells

Philip Lymbery

Opens debates about cultivated meat

Chase Purdy

Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food

Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazhi

Where do hot dogs come from? A Children’s Book about Cellular Agriculture

Ahmed Khan

An Introduction to Cellular Agriculture (ebook)

Jacy Reese

How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System

Robert Paarlberg

Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat

Larissa Zimberoff

Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food

Dilek Ercili-Cura & Dorothee Barth

Cellular Agriculture: Lab-Grown Foods

Koert van Mensvoort

In Vitro Meat Cookbook

podcasts

Talks between creative people that focus on Food, Sustainability, Cellular Agriculture, Business and Innovation

Cultured Meat and Future Food

Cultured Meat and Future Food is a short-form podcast series discussing the role of plant-based food, cultivated meat and food technology.
Host: Alex Shirazi

Brave New Meat

The mission of this podcast is to tell the stories of entrepreneurs and investors building cultivated meat startups.
Host: Doug Grant

Business for Good

Spotlighting companies making money by making the world a better place and solving the most pressing problems
Host: Paul Shapiro

Red to Green

Covering food tech & sustainability with in-depth research and reaching food tech professionals in 85+ countries.
Host: Marina Schmidt

Eat for The Planet

Features conversations with food industry leaders, health and sustainability experts, as well as entrepreneurs who are redefining the future of food.
Host: Nil Zacharias

Wageningen Alt Protein Project

Strives to build a healthy, sustainable, and just food system by creating a robust community for alternative protein research.
Host: WUR

Plant Proof

Doctors, nutritionists, dieticians, athletes, entrepreneurs and inspiring people from across the world. We totally recommend episodes: 109, 148, 169
Host: Simon Hill

Table TALK

On each episode of Table Talk we dive deeper into the unanswered questions shaping the food and drink landscape.
Host: Food Matters live

The Spoon

A podcast about foodtech and the future of food brought to you by The Spoon. Formerly known as the SmartKitchen Show.
Host: Michael Wolf

Future Positive

Aims to bring you the most future-forward topics, covering everything from AI to avatars, to climate change, and more.
Host: XPRIZE Foundation

IndieBio -Designing Science

“Designing Science” podcast with Arvind Gupta, Founder and Managing director of IndieBio.
Host: Arvind Gupta

Future Talk

Podcast series in which curious minds from diverse fields come together to discuss their personal visions for the future of Science and Technology.
Host: Merck KGaA

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the science of cellular agriculture

Scientific Resources and Courses about Cellular Agriculture and Cultivated Meat

The science of cultivated meat (GFI)

Learn about the science of cultivated meat and the challenges that must be addressed for commercial production.
The Cellular Agriculture Course (David Kaplan Lab at Tufts University)

A yearly university level undergraduate class on cellular agriculture, mostly focused on the Bioengineering behind cultured meat (or in vitro meat, cultivated meat etc).
You Are What You Meat (New Harvest)

"We worked with scientists in the field to explain how we’re growing meats in labs—and when you can eat them. It’s your introduction to the next agricultural revolution."
IAP Cell Ag Course (MIT)

How could we produce animal products without slaughtering animals? These courses, designed by MIT students and alumni, introduce cellular agriculture: the manufacture of animal products from cell cultures.
Zero to One on the basic science behind cultivated meat (Nathan Merzvinskis)

These learning modules will take you from zero to one on the foundations of the science behind cultivated meat. Each module would take approx. 4 hours to complete (16 hours all up).
Cultivated Meat Paperpile list (Elliot Swartz, GFI)

Elliot Swartz has compiled a list of academic papers relevant to cultivated meat in a program called PaperPile. Check it out and download to your heart’s content!
Seafood related academic papers (Claire Bomkamp, GFI)

Claire BomkampI has compiled a list of academic papers relevant to cultivated seafood. It’s a little less intuitive to use but you can filter to get exactly the papers you want! Unfortunately, some of the papers aren’t open access so you can’t view without purchasing or institutional access.

Industry & entrepreneurship

State of the Industry Report: Cultivated Meat (GFI)

Get up to speed on the global cultivated meat industry. This report details the commercial landscape, investments, regulatory developments, and scientific progress in the rapidly accelerating field of producing meat through cellular agriculture.

Industry Analysis (GFI)

More consumers than ever are demanding alternative proteins that are as delicious, affordable, and accessible as conventional products. As a nonprofit working to build a sustainable, secure, and just food system, we partner with companies and investors across the globe to drive investment, accelerate innovation, and scale the supply chain — all faster than market forces alone would allow.

The Good Food Startup Manual (GFI)

There has never been a better time to start an alternative protein company. The Good Food Startup Manual presents a step-by-step guide for turning your idea into a viable product and company. The guide offers support for every step along the journey through to scale up and beyond.

Entrepreneurship and alternative proteins (GFI)

Starting a business can be challenging, and GFI is here to help. Our resources support each step of planning, launching, and growing an alternative protein startup.

Reducing the price of alternative proteins

Along with taste and accessibility, price is part of the trifecta of key consumer drivers of interest in alternative proteins. Learn about the current price landscape, consumer insights on price, and pathways to price parity.

General Content about Cellular Agriculture

GFI: Alternative protein: what, why and how

The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit working internationally to accelerate alternative protein innovation.
New Harvest: Building the Field of Cellular Agriculture

New Harvest is a donor-funded research institute advancing the science behind cultured meat.
What Is Cultivated Meat?

WhatIsCultivatedMeat.com is an interdisciplinary knowledge base that explores the science of cellular agriculture and cultivated meat.
Protein Directory: Alternative Protein Company Database

Connect to 1400+ plant-based, fermentation and cultivated companies via the largest global alt protein database
The KET Maps — FoodTech Industry Landscapes

The KindEarth.Tech (KET) food tech maps include The New Protein Landscape, The New Dairy Landscape, and sub-maps such as alternative cheese, plant-based
90 Reasons to Consider Cellular Agriculture

90 Reasons is a list of prospective benefits cellular agriculture may offer upon global-scale introduction this century. Gasteratos, Kristopher, 2019.

studies and assessments about cultivated meat

Anticipatory LCA and TEA of commercial cultivated meat production

A summary of key findings and future directions: Anticipatory life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic assessment (TEA) of commercial cultivated meat production, March 09, 2021 Elliot Swartz, Ph.D.
TEA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenarios

In this report we make a Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA) for the production of cultivated meat (CM) at industrial scale, in 2030, based on primary data from companies, November, 2021.
LCA of cultivated meat. Future projections for different scenarios

In this prospective Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study of cultivated meat (CM, also sometimes referred to as cell-based meat, clean meat, cultured meat and in-vitro meat) we provide insight into the environmental impact of this product when produced at commercial scales in 2030, February, 2021.
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.

Joe Fassler focuses on the commercial viability of cultivated meat and highlights some of the challenges of the industry, September, 2021.
Elliot Swartz's thread regarding Joe Fassler's article "Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story."

Elliot Swartz (GFI), Sep, 2021.
George Peppou: Cultured meat was never inevitable

Article by George Peppou, CEO & Founder of cultivated meat company "Vow Foods", September, 2021.
Scale-up economics for cultured meat

This analysis examines the potential of “cultured meat” products made from edible animal cell culture to measurably displace the global consumption of conventional meat. David Humbird June, 2021.