Blogs
When the Impossible Becomes Inevitable: The Quest for Serum-Free Cultivated Meat
For years, critics have argued that bovine serum’s alleged indispensability made commercial-scale cultivated meat a non-starter. Today, the leading companies have invented technologies rendering FBS use all but obsolete.
SAVING CHARISMATIC MINIFAUNA: HOW PRECISION FERMENTATION SPARED TENS OF MILLIONS OF FIREFLIES
Supply chains for any product can be messy, but it’s hard to imagine one messier than how diabetics before the ’90s got their insulin. Pharma giant Eli Lilly alone used to purchase 53 million pig and cattle pancreases each year just to extract the insulin that was sold to the diabetic market.
How Animal Advocates (Inadvertently) Helped Launch Synthetic Biology Rennet in Cheese
If calf rennet’s dominance in cheese-making could so quickly be supplanted by synbio fermentation, could the same happen for other animal-based ingredients?
TECHNOLOGY TO ANIMALS’ RESCUE: A BOOK REVIEW OF “A TRAITOR TO HIS SPECIES”
In his riveting new book about the founder of America’s first animal welfare organization, historian Ernest Freeberg does a magnificent job detailing the problems animals faced in 19th- century America and the campaigns of those who crusaded on their behalf.
METAL PENS: GOOD FOR THE GOOSE AND GOOD FOR THE GANDER
If you were to argue a case before the Supreme Court today, you’d notice something a bit unusual. At your desk, the highest court in the land would have laid out before you pens should you need to write something during the proceedings.