Commercial-Scale Serum-Free Media, Plant-Based Surge, and v2food’s Strategic Move

Also: Japan is shifting its approach to novel foods, including cultivated meat

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🇬🇧 Multus opens the “world’s first” commercial-scale facility for affordable, serum-free growth media for the cultivated meat industry

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The British biotech company’s expansion was made possible by a successful £7.9 million fundraising campaign last January, in addition to a £2.15 million equity-free grant from Innovate UK via the EIC Accelerator.