Cultured meat is gaining momentum, with large production facilities under construction and the arduous approval process for the finished products inching forward. Most of the industry’s focus thus far ...

Imagine dining on salmon with no worries about mercury, toxic metals or plastics. Or concerns about dwindling fish stocks. Or, from a food safety viewpoint, about contamination from salmonella or ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved San-Francisco-based Wildtype to become the nation’s first company to sell lab-grown seafood. Wildtype cleared the pre-market safety assessment in ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

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