Lab-grown food might feel like something from a far-reaching dystopian film. Yet cell-cultivated products are already on the shelves in certain countries – and could be on sale in the UK within just ...

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 ...

Tanks, where cultivated chicken is made, are seen at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023 in Alameda, California, a month after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) authorized two ...

“Microbial protein,” says Katelijne Bekers, waving a vial of beige-coloured powder in front of me like it’s a magic potion. It doesn’t look like your typical lunch fare, but this unassuming dust could ...

House Bill 163 would prohibit restaurants and grocery stores from labeling plant-based or lab-grown products as "meat." The bill defines "conventional meat" as food made from the carcass of animals, ...

Microbial ecosystems – for example in the seawater, the soil or in the human gut – are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often struggle to reproduce this diversity in the lab: Many microorganisms ...

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to ...

Wildtype wants to offer lab-grown salmon that can be used in place of real sashimi and sushi. The FDA has greenlit the first lab-grown fish for public consumption, and it’s already available in a ...

Cattle feed at a ranch that supplies the animals for export to the U.S. in Zamora, northern Mexico, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Cattle ranchers were the most vocal supporters of the ban on lab-grown meat.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's lunchtime at the San Francisco headquarters of Wildtype. And company founders Justin Kolbeck and Arye Elfenbein, M.D., believe what's on the menu is nothing short of the ...

As the market for protein alternatives evolves, scientists are testing hybrid approaches that blend traditional and novel sources — but not everyone's convinced it's the recipe for the future. A new ...