- Overview
- Background
- Behind-the-scenes
Overview
For decades, humanity has produced high value, small volume proteins, enzymes, and small molecules via cell cultures. What if we leveraged decades of experience in industrial fermentation to produce egg proteins this way?
That is exactly what New Harvest community members Arturo Elizondo and David Anchel set out to do as the New Harvest Egg Project.
The New Harvest Egg Project eventually turned into Clara Foods (now The EVERY Company), the world’s first company to grow egg whites from cell cultures instead of hens.
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As of April 2021, The EVERY Company has launched the world’s first animal-free animal pepsin and partnered with AB InBev to scale production of their egg proteins.
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New Harvest currently holds founding equity in The EVERY Company. With it, we are building an endowment for future cellular agriculture research.
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Due to the explosion of private investment in cellular agriculture following the success of The EVERY Company, New Harvest no longer starts companies.
Behind-the-scenes
At the beginning of The EVERY Company’s journey, we documented updates about the project here.
The EVERY Company is now too big for us to keep track of what they’re up to. They are also an independent company! To stay up-to-date on The EVERY Company’s latest developments, please visit their website.
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- The EVERY Company’s hen-free egg white meringue
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- David holding a yeast culture capable of producing egg white proteins.
Updates
October, 2021 – Clara Foods rebrands as The EVERY Company.
February, 2015 – New Harvest publishes an interview with Arturo and an interview with David.
March, 2015 – In light of growing independent interest among investors in cellular agriculture, New Harvest moves away from founding companies. Instead, we focus on more neglected aspects of ecosystem building and supporting pre-competitive research.
December, 2014 – The New Harvest Egg Project is renamed Clara Foods and accepted into IndieBio SF, an accelerator which provides lab space and funding.
November, 2014 – David Anchel, Arturo Elizondo, and New Harvest unite as the New Harvest Egg Project.
See More Initiatives
2020 - PRESENT
The New Harvest OpenCellAg Repository
In order to see our vision of a more just, equitable, and humane food system one of our key strategies is to default to open. By creating an open cellular agriculture repository on Zenodo we ensure that the research produced by New Harvest and other researchers is accessible for all to use, read, share, and build upon. In that way we are increasing the impact of this crucial knowledge by furthering its reach.
2020 - Present
Safety Roadmap for Cultured Meat
Because growing meat through cell culture is so novel a process, many questions about the safety of cell-cultured meat and seafood products remain unanswered.
This industry-wide initiative was designed in partnership with Vireo Advisors to begin a data-driven conversation about the safety of cultured meat. 50 leading companies shared previously unpublished details about their manufacturing processes which we used to create a body of publicly available information about how cultured meat is produced and what safety hazards might be introduced along the way.
2018-2019
Cell-Based Seafood
Cellular agriculture can be applied to seafood production to reduce our dependence on commercial fishing, which threatens the health of oceans and marine life.1 Why, then, is seafood so underexplored compared to land-based meat?
Prior to this initiative, no public literature explored marine applications of cellular agriculture. We consolidated all of the technical reasons why seafood is uniquely suited for cell culture into a peer-reviewed paper to advance further research about cell-based seafood.