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$50M for Climate-Smart Fertiliser, and Precision-Fermented Dairy Hits Shelves
Also: First cultivated pork dinner, next-gen breast milk fat, and farmers enter the cell-ag loop
15 hrs ago
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Eshan Samaranayake
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How ‘Tricking’ Cells Into High Production Can Transform Biomanufacturing
What if microbes in a bioreactor had only one rule: make the product or perish?
Sep 8
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Eshan Samaranayake
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$31M for Mycoprotein Scale-Up, $4.2M for Bean-Free Coffee, and Helping Pollinators With Biotech
Also: How Prime Roots carved out a profitable niche in alt deli meats with its mycelium-based proteins
Sep 1
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Eshan Samaranayake
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August 2025
Agricultural Biologicals: Why Adoption Lagged, and Where Momentum Is Building
“Snake oil” scepticism to cautious optimism.
Aug 18
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Eshan Samaranayake
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Mars Taps CRISPR for Climate-Resilient Cocoa, World’s First Cell-Based Dairy Supply Deal, and Ag Biotech Valuations Surge
Also: How the world's leading pure-play seed and crop protection company uses AI to build a faster, smarter discovery engine
Aug 11
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Eshan Samaranayake
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Recombinant Human Lactoferrin Scales, First Cultivated Pet Food Approved in Asia, and Biofertiliser with a Green Discount
Also: Provectus Algae raised $10.1M Series A and $2.5M government grant to scale livestock methane-reducing feed additive.
Aug 4
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Eshan Samaranayake
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July 2025
EU Votes to Make Biotech A Strategic Priority, World’s Largest Chocolate Maker Explores Cultured Cocoa, and 1650-Tonne Gas Protein Deal
Also: Triple-microalgae biostimulant application increased plant yield by 32% and photosynthesis efficiency by 25%.
Jul 21
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Eshan Samaranayake
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$350M EU Push for Food and Biotech, AI-Driven Tropical Oil Replacements, and RNA Vaccines for Crops
Also: Agrifood tech startups raised $5.1B in H1 2025, down 37% from $8.1B in H1 2024.
Jul 7
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Eshan Samaranayake
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June 2025
Australia and New Zealand Approve Cultivated Meat, Tetra Pak Backs Fermentation, and AI-Powered Ag Peptides
Also: EU backs 16 climate-smart agrifood startups as inflation and environmental risks grow.
Jun 23
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Eshan Samaranayake
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$1.4B in Q1 Food Tech VC, AI-Powered Crop Immunity, and Gene Editing for Resilient Small Farms
Also: Everyone who tried Upside Foods’ product at a public tasting opposed cultivated meat bans regardless of political affiliation.
Jun 16
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Eshan Samaranayake
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First US Cultivated Seafood Approval, Mycoprotein from Ethanol Waste, and Cocoa Biomanufacturing Scales Up
Also: University of Oxford and Wild Bio to receive £6.7M grant to improve potato and wheat yields using new synthetic biology approach.
Jun 9
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Eshan Samaranayake
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Major Cultivated Meat Cost Breakthroughs, Lego Factory Becomes Fermentation Hub, and AI Smell Tech for Harvests
Also: Researchers turned spent coffee grounds into yeast-derived biostimulants for crops
Jun 2
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Eshan Samaranayake
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