Articles by Breanna Duffy

A full report on the workshop outcomes is coming soon. In the meantime, here are some big-picture takeaways. What do you think is the future of safety research for cultured meat and seafood?

We’re seeking experts and researchers in food safety, toxicology, biomanufacturing, cell biology, food science, and other related fields to discuss cultured meat and food safety as part of our US govt-funded workshop series.

Students from around the world can apply by March 25, 2025 to receive a cultured meat starter kit plus $1000 to get your cell ag research off the ground.

During this year-long research position, supported by New Harvest and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII), Ali will develop a machine learning model to help optimize cell culture media for cultured meat applications. 

This session aims to foster collaboration amongst individuals interested in actively working on or advising cultured meat and seafood safety research.

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

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 (Grant No. 2417703) and the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (AFRI project 2024-07959), the […]

In case you missed it (or need a reminder!), New Harvest has TWO open funding opportunities due this summer.    1. Machine Learning in Cellular Agriculture Residency New Harvest and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) are now looking for an innovative scientist to tackle a promising research question in this space during a residency position for one year.  This full-time […]

Like many others in cellular agriculture, I was trained in an adjacent field – in my case, tissue engineering for medical applications. As I neared the end of my PhD, I became increasingly concerned about how the food we eat impacts the climate, our health, and animal welfare. When I completed my degree, I was […]

In 2020, New Harvest and Vireo Advisors launched the world’s first initiative dedicated to the safety of cultured meat and seafood: the Cultured Meat Safety Initiative (CMSI). First, we rallied together 87 individuals from 50 leading cultured meat and seafood companies to share previously unpublished information about their manufacturing process, allowing us to identify potential […]

Our collaborative project, funded by Schmidt Futures

Our collaborative project, funded by Schmidt Futures

We’re excited to share the designs for an open source bioreactor – a project six years in the making with many evolutions. Back in 2017, New Harvest Research Fellow Jess Krieger pioneered a new project to build a cultured meat bioreactor with an ambitious team of mechanical and materials engineering students at the University of British […]

The New Harvest Fellowship program has been critical to building the field of cellular agriculture. We’re open sourcing how it is run so you can craft your own.

In April we shared 45 papers published by New Harvest’s donor-funded researchers. (Here’s part 1 of 7 on the blog.) There have since been 15 new peer-reviewed papers published! It is exciting to see the results of these projects, often many years in the making, come out into the world. The open sharing of research methods […]

This paper is the first of many we hope to support that makes the scale-up conversation accessible to a wider audience.

Safety is non-negotiable when it comes to cell-based foods. That is why I am so pleased to share the progress of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on this topic. Today, a milestone publication was made public which shares up-to-date technical knowledge on the food safety aspects of cell-based food production. This milestone […]

Part VI is about scaffolds, the materials that cells (especially muscle cells) like to attach on to grow.

Part V is about media: the liquid that cells grow and divide within, and its many components.

Part IV is about the cells of cellular agriculture. These are the building blocks of the field!

Part III is short and sweet: our single, highly influential paper on the safety of cultured meat.

Here’s part two of our seven part series sharing all 45** of the peer-reviewed publications supported by New Harvest. This second compilation of papers is all about assessing, measuring, and maximizing the potential impact of cellular agriculture on the world. We look at environmental and socio-political angles of the technology. These types of papers are […]

Did you know that New Harvest has supported 45 peer-reviewed scientific publications in cellular agriculture? As you know, building the scientific foundations of the field is a key part of our role as cellular agriculture ecosystem builders. That means funding fundamental, open research: the work that drives innovation, sparks follow-on government funding and investment, informs policymakers, […]

Our collaborative project, funded by Schmidt Futures

We’re teaming up with Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition and the Experiment Foundation to get “unfundable” projects off the ground.

Impeding the flow of information misaligns with New Harvest’s role as a public charity.

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.

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!