New Harvest and Vireo Advisors are launching a cultured meat safety working session series for 2024-2025 to formally kick off Phase 3 of the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI)!  Funded by the US National Science Foundation, the working sessions aim to foster collaboration amongst individuals interested in actively working on or advising cultured meat and […]

October 28, 2024

New peer-reviewed publication on cell ag & AI

“Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for cultured meat” has just been published fully open access in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence!

October 21, 2024

Report: Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming

A new report sheds light on what farmers care about, worry about, and see as an opportunity to improve their business when it comes to cultured meat production.

September 7, 2024

NH@20 Podcast: Dr. Dwayne Holmes on NH Netherlands

It’s the second instalment of our new podcast series “New Harvest @ 20”! Hosted by Alex Shirazi of the Cultured Meat & Future Food Podcast, we reflect on cellular agriculture’s past and look toward future directions with leaders from the New Harvest community. This episode features Dr. Dwayne Holmes, Director, Responsible Research & Innovation – EU at New Harvest […]

September 4, 2024

Bringing It Home on Ryan Jespersen’s RealTalk

When we think about hotspots in cellular agriculture we normally think about the Boston or Bay Areas. Or Singapore, the Netherlands, and Israel. But in my latest podcast appearance I want to convince you that the future of food lives on the Canadian prairies. Unless you’re secretly Canadian too, you may not know that I […]

August 12, 2024

TED Radio Hour features New Harvest

Recently I had the pleasure of being featured on the TED Radio Hour, where we delved into the current arc of cellular agriculture, gave a reality-check, and reflected on how things have changed since my 2021 TED talk. During our conversation, I discussed how my journey began back in college with a simple yet transformative idea: […]

July 23, 2024

New Harvest is 20 Years Old! And We’re Sharing Our New Strategic Plan

Twenty years ago, at exactly 4:57pm ET to the date, New Harvest was born. Jason Matheny and Vladimir Mironov were the founding directors of the first organization of its kind: a nonprofit focused on “advancing technologies for the production of in vitro cultured meat (meat that is produced in a cell culture, rather than an animal) so as to provide […]

July 22, 2024

LIVE Birthday Podcast with Q&A Tomorrow!

  It’s a big week for us. A week of reflection and celebration as New Harvest turns 20 years old tomorrow Tuesday, July 23rd! As part of our milestone celebration, we’re launching a new podcast series, “New Harvest @ 20”, where we highlight the past decades of progress and directions for the future with multiple leaders from the New […]

July 16, 2024

New PhD Opportunity in Canadian Cell Ag Research

For the past few years, we have been working closely with the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Research teams to understand and raise awareness about the cellular agriculture landscape in Canada. Today, I’m thrilled to share a significant milestone – the opening of a PhD position for the first project focused on cell ag led by governmental […]

July 11, 2024

FEASTS is Live with New Harvest Leadership

Earlier this year we launched FEASTS (Fostering European cellular-Agriculture for Sustainable Transition Solution), a groundbreaking, collaborative research programme funded by the EU. The goal is to deliver a comprehensive, unbiased knowledge base about cultured meat and seafood and their place in the food system. The work will be conducted over the next 3 years by a consortium of 35 […]