The worlds first lab grown steak breaks cover in Switzerland
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why grow cows in fields when you can just grow the steaks sustainably in a lab? Food is being re-invented … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Old oil wells are finding new life as Hydrogen fuel sources thanks to these bacteria
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Once oil wells are tapped out they’re capped, but now they’re getting a new lease of life after bacteria injected into them turn them into green hydrogen fuel sources. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Chicken made in a lab gets its first US FDA approval
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why raise chickens for meat when you can just grow that meat in a lab without all the anti-biotics, environmental damage, and nuisance? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
At over 200,000 burgers a day this cultivated meat factory will be the world’s biggest
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you don’t need animals to make meat you don’t need to feed them crops or water, deforest the Amazon, or figure out ways to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future...
New bacteria and bioreactor breakthroughs are cleaning up toxic waste water
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Pollution isn’t sexy, no influencer will spend their time poking creating content about it, but it’s killing people and the environment and we need solutions. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
In the future your coffee could be grown in a lab
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today we can take the cells from plants and animals and grow coffee, dairy, fish, and meat in a lab, and it’s changing how we produce food. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Bioartificial kidney aces tests and could one day replace dialysis
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By combining human cells and mechanical components researchers have created a new kind of hybrid human organ that works as well as the real thing. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Molecular farming means your next vaccine could be grown in a plant
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if your food could vaccinate you against diseases? And other odd questions … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. It’s a hot summers day and you bite down on a plump,...
Higher Steaks shows off the world’s first lab made bacon and pork bellies
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of food doesn’t involve raising animals for slaughter or growing crops in fields … and it’s arriving. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Amazon and Ocado are growing crops in vertical farms in warehouses, not open fields, companies are 3D printing beef...
Food made from thin air could disrupt the global Soya market within a decade
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating Soya and other protein products has a huge environmental impact, food literally made from air eliminates that. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. There’s a food revolution going on – whether it’s plant based meat, which let’s face...
Chicken nuggets grown in a lab from feathers for the first time
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the great challenges of our time, but new food production technologies could make famine a thing of the past. Interested in the future and want to experience even more?! Watch a keynote, grab a free book, read thousands of...
Food breakthrough lets researchers grow fish meat on demand
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the Earth’s population and its appetite for protein grows this latest breakthrough will help alleviate famine and hunger. We are on the cusp of a food production revolution, one that could eradicate global famine and let us make food, of all types, from...
Genetic engineering breakthrough turns chickens into egg laying medicine factories
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to produce drugs and medicines cheaply is important, and this breakthrough breaks grounds on all kinds of fronts. Ordinarily, when scientists want to produce proteins to use in medicine they have to use techniques that are costly and complex. Recently, however, in...
Aleph Farms serves up the world’s first lab grown steak
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By 2050 there will be an estimated 10 billion people on the planet, producing our food in new ways will let us alleviate hunger and feed them all. Over the past couple of years I’ve been watching the rise of vertical farms, that produce...
World first as scientists re-grow a frogs amputated leg using a “silk bioreactor”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Some of us are unfortunate enough to loose a limb, or multiple limbs, and one day this technology, and technologies like it, could help us regrow them. Like something, out of a science fiction movie or everyone’s favourite “Merc with a mouth”, Deadpool, researchers...
China spends $300million to buy lab produced meats from Israel
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Food production is undergoing a revolution, and technology is helping us move away from what many experts and governments are increasingly seeing as outdated farming techniques to help us feed Earth’s growing population. Following on from a recent announcement that US start up Plenty...
Modern Meadow gets ready to bring 3D printed meat and leather to New York
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Meat and animal products without the animals used to be nothing more than science fiction, but new products are already finding their ways onto supermarket shelves and this is just the beginning of a manufacturing revolution. It’s sounds like it’s straight out of a...
Meat without the animals, Memphis Meats shows off new lab produced beef, chicken and duck dishes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Setting side huge areas of the earth to raise animals is wasteful and environmentally costly, but all of that might soon move into a lab. If you thought that your children will enjoy the same family roast that you’ve always enjoyed then it might...
