Cultured Meat Needs a Race to Mission, Not a Race to Market: Our piece in Nature Food
Nature Food has published a special issue on cellular agriculture, including a call to action for the cultured meat field co-authored by New Harvest.
New Harvest publishes cell ag's first safety paper
An unprecedented example of collective action, 50 leading companies shared previously unpublished details about their manufacturing process with New Harvest to inform safety recommendations for cell-cultured meat and seafood.
Rethinking our grant programs
With our new mission, New Harvest is taking our programming back to the lab.
Announcing New Harvest's 2021 Grantees
In 2021, New Harvest welcomed 10 new grantees to our research community, bringing our total number of active researchers to 30. Here's a sneak peak of what they're working on.
New Harvest Seed Grantee Seeks Beta Testers for Cell Counting App
Santiago Campuzano developed the mobile app SCellyCus to automate the process of counting cells—a fundamental and tedious step of most cultured meat experiments. He is looking for beta testers to help him improve the app.
Cellular Agriculture and Food Security in Canada
We are excited to announce a collaboration with Dr. Lenore Newman and Dr. Robert Newell at the University of Fraser Valley Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI) to investigate the viability of localized cellular agriculture industry in Canada.
Announcing New Harvest's 2020 Grantees
In 2020, New Harvest welcomed 13 new grantees to our research community, bringing our total number of current researchers to 26. We were able to DOUBLE our research program—in a pandemic no less—thanks to the generous support of New Harvest donors.Without further ado...meet New Harvest's 2020 cohort of cell ag pioneers!
New Harvest Grants First Dissertation Award
At the start of the pandemic, New Harvest granted Mike McLellan our very first dissertation award to support a novel workaround for animal serum in the production of cultured meat. Unlike other serum-free media projects, Mike isn’t trying to develop a replacement “substance” to Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS). Instead, Mike is developing a muscle culture “trophic support cell” (TSC) that will provide the same growth factors typically provided by animal serum. This TSC could be co-cultured with muscle cells to precipitate their differentiation into muscle tissue. Theoretically, this will function as a proof of concept for serum-free tissue culture. I called Mike to learn about his research, but the conversation snowballed into an interrogation of Winston Churchill’s fame within cellular agriculture and discussion about how COVID-19 radicalized Mike’s vision for cultured meat’s role in food security.
New Harvest X IRNAS Bioreactor Begins Next Phase of Testing
This summer, researchers at the University of Maribor in Slovenia will study how cells grow and survive in the prototype.
Open Call for Cellular Agriculture Manuscript Submissions Until November 30
New Harvest Fellow Dr. Ricardo Gouveia is guest editing a special issue of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences devoted entirely to cellular agriculture. This issue, entitled "Current Advances in Cellular Agriculture," welcomes articles with a strong focus on cell and stem cell biology, microbiology, molecular and synthetic biology, and biochemical/metabolic engineering, as well as other intersecting topics related to promoting the advancement of cellular agriculture. The deadline for manuscript submissions is November 30, 2020.
New Harvest Funds Serum-Free Media for Cell-Based Seafood
Inside New Harvest Fellow Cameron Semper's project to culture fish cells without fetal bovine serum.
Welcome New Harvest’s Three New Research Fellows
Meet the three scientists — from the US, UK, and Canada — who will be advancing breakthroughs in cellular agriculture starting this fall!
We Closed Our First Research Project
On May 1, 2017, Abi Glencross discontinued her research at King’s College London focused on 3D vascularized tissue for the production of cultured meat. It was the first New Harvest-funded Fellowship Project, and it began in November 2015.
Cultured Meat at Kent State University
In the fall of 2016, New Harvest was able to provide a grant to Research Fellow Jess Krieger at Kent State University. Jess is completing her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology, and is using her expertise in tissue engineering to solve some of the technical challenges of growing cultured meat.
Perceptions of Cellular Agriculture: Key Findings from Qualitative Research
While there is still much hard science to be done to bring cultured meat to grocery stores, it is important to note that the potential benefits of cellular agriculture will only be realized if consumers accept the technology and its products.
New Harvest Research Fellow Abi Glencross receives King's College Global Research Award!
New Harvest's first grant recipient Abi Glencross (PhD candidate in cellular agriculture at King's College London) is receiving The King’s College Global Research Award! This is an opportunity for researchers to undertake research or work in order to develop international university partnerships. The awardees research aligns with one or more of the following global themes:Defence and SecurityGlobal HealthSustainable CitiesCulture & IdentityTo undertake this research, Abi will be crossing the pond to study under Dr. Andrew Pelling at the Pelling Lab in Ottawa, Canada in 2017! Abi describes what this work will entail in her entry for the New Harvest blog.
Cellular Agriculture at Tufts University
New Harvest is funding the first graduate student fellowship program for cellular agriculture research at Tufts University, and Natalie Rubio is the first grantee. Natalie Rubio will begin working in Professor David Kaplan's biomaterials-focused lab on August 1, 2016, funded by New Harvest through the New Harvest Cultured Tissue Fellowship.
New Harvest funds fundamental research for the production of cultured chicken meat
Leading Avian Tissue Researcher Begins Research On The Production of Chicken Meat without Chickens
Cultured Avian Tissue
New Harvest is supporting a foundational cultured avian tissue research project for the purpose of creating chicken and turkey meat without animals at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. The project is led by Dr. Paul Mozdziak, an expert in animal cell culture techniques, transgenic animal production, and muscle biology. He is assisted by graduate student Marie Gibbons. New Harvest’s financial support to the team at NCSU will total $118,800, provided over 2 years.