Addressing the cultivated meat challenge

摘要

WORKING BEHIND THE scenes of the emerging cultured meat industry, BioBetter, an Israeli food tech start-up is repurposing tobacco plants to create the growth factors necessary for the cellular development of cultivated meat.The company has announced a new role for the Nicotiana tabacum plant upon discovering it can overcome the hurdle of scaled production in cultured meat. BioBetter claims this landmark botanical breakthrough could significantb reduce the cost of cultivated meat and advance it rapidly to scale up.