Sydney cultivated meat startup Vow, best known for its “woolly mammoth meatball“, has launched in a second Asian city, with a new product resembling the French delicacy foie gras. The release of Forged Gras as a cell-based meat tackles one of the key ethical issues in foie gras production, gavage, the force-feeding of ducks and… Read more »
Lab-grown animal proteins startup Vow Foods will serve its cell-based meat in a restaurant in Singapore next week. Its first product is a parfait (a buttery, silken pate made from livers), using cultivated Japanese quail cells, served as part of a A$290 dinner at Mori restaurant at the Mandala Club over the next fortnight. The… Read more »
Last week, an Australian “cultured meat” company called Vow made headlines with a meatball made from the flesh of a woolly mammoth – or something very much like it. Combining the technologies of lab-based cell culture and “de-extinction,” Vow scientists grew muscle proteins based on DNA sequences from the long-dead proboscideans. The meatball was not… Read more »
Sydney cultured meat startup Vow Foods has created the world’s first edible protein developed from the DNA of an extinct animal – the woolly mammoth. Pitching their technology as a solution to climate change – and using the mammoth as “a monumental symbol of what we stand to lose now” – Vow unveiled its latest… Read more »
VOW co-founders Tim-Noakesmith and George Peppou. Photo: supplied A Western Sydney startup has joined the global race to produce lab-grown meat from animal stem cells and the NSW government is backing the project with a $25,000 grant to get it to a Minimum Viable Product. The Australian twist to the tail is that the cellular… Read more »
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