Seven New Projects Powered by the Cell Ag Science Engine
This award-winning funding program seeks novel ways to fund science and technology for the public good. Here's what we supported in cellular agriculture.
Announcing New Harvest’s cell ag crowdfunding challenge on Experiment.com
We're teaming up with Robert Downey Jr.'s FootPrint Coalition and the Experiment Foundation to get "unfundable" projects off the ground.
What movement building means to us
By building a community of cell ag researchers across the world, we’ve built a movement that has momentum of its own.
Six takeaways from our year-in-review call
Yesterday, New Harvest held our second annual year-in-review call, a tradition started last year to catch up with donors and community members and field questions over Zoom. Thank you to all 80+ community members who zoomed in from around the world, from New Zealand to Budapest!
Watch Isha Datar's TED talk on cellular agriculture
New Harvest Executive Director Isha Datar explains how cultured meat can disrupt animal agriculture AND create a more just, democratic food system.
“What Questions Should We Be Asking About Cell-Based Meats?” A Fellow Responds.
Last month, Forbes contributor Errol Schweizer published a list of questions about cell-based meat, requesting more information from cell ag stakeholders about issues like growth media, antibiotics, and food safety. Andrew Stout, a PhD candidate in bioengineering at Tufts University, took a stab at answering Schweizer's questions from his perspective as a cultured meat researcher.
Biotechnology, Cellular Agriculture, and the Human Right to Food
This article was originally written by New Harvest Dissertation Awardee Mike McLellan for the American Association for the Advancement of Science "Science and Human Rights" 2020 student essay competition. It is republished here in full. by Mike McLellan
Cultured Meat: Pet Food Edition
Pet food might be the underdog of lab-grown meat, but Bond Pet Foods and Because Animals say the chances of scientific success and consumer acceptance increase when the stakes are lowered.
Inside BIOMILQ: A Cell Ag Company Growing Breastmilk From Isolated Human Mammary Cells
Leila Strickland and Michelle Egger are on a mission to make something as digestible as human milk, but as practical as infant formula.
A Word From Our Research Fellows
Since 2015, New Harvest has grown its team of Research Fellows from one pioneering scientist in cellular agriculture to an international, multi-disciplinary, collaborative team of six! Supporting and sharing the work of these trailblazing scientists is core to New Harvest’s mission — and it has only been made possible thanks to the ongoing support of individual donors, just like you.Today, the New Harvest Research Fellows are paving the way for future generations of scientists in cellular agriculture to take the field to new and greater depths. Our hope is to be able to fund and democratize even more of this kind of research, so that a future industry can be established on a robust academic foundation that is as accessible and transparent as possible. Read on to find out what being a New Harvest Research Fellow or a principal investigator has meant for our team, in their own words.
"Why I give to New Harvest" - A word from our donors
New Harvest has come a long way since starting out twelve years ago as the organization which brought cultured meat from a seemingly far off sci fi concept to real, news making science that regular people can get excited about. It's no easy feat to set out to achieve a goal as far-reaching as ours, but the progress that we are making is significant - and it gets more exciting as the momentum continues to build.