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Biotech startup Shiru sprouting plant-based ingredients with new capital infusion

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We aim to cover a lot of food categories, but by replacing them with sustainable and nutritious ingredients.”. The firm is an investment fund focused on healthy food and sustainable agriculture, and often invests in companies that have impact and an analog to replace animal products. For example, white, spongy bread has milk proteins.

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Katakem’s ‘robot chef’ speeds up drug development with reliable chemistry

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Organic chemist Manuela Oliverio was working on a new drug when he noticed that test results on mice weren’t consistent, because the molecule being administered was always different depending on the chemist who produced it. ” To Oliverio’s point, drug development today is a lengthy and expensive endeavor. .

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Kiwi Bio aims to free irritable bowel syndrome sufferers from restrictive diets

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This led her to pair up with David Hachuel to develop a way to make eating a painless ritual for 40 million other Americans also suffering from IBS. We learned through clinical testing that capsules were one of the worst ways to deliver enzymes,” Liu said. Kiwi’s first product, FODZYME, came out in May.

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How Rani Therapeutics’ robotic pill could change subcutaneous injection treatment

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A prominent figure in life sciences innovation, Imran has founded over 20 medical device companies and helped develop the world’s first implantable cardiac defibrillator. In January 2020, their acromegaly treatment, Octreotide, demonstrated both safety and sustained bioavailability in primary clinical trials.

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Yali Bio wants to fatten up plant-based foods

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The process involves synthetic biology, deep learning and genomics tools that produce fats that are more sustainable than the current oils, like coconut, that are used in plant proteins, but also mimic animal-based analogs in terms of flavor and texture, CEO Yulin Lu told TechCrunch.

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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI

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Cortical combines synthetic biology and human neurons to develop what it claims is a class of AI, known as ‘Organoid Intelligence (OI)’. He says the technology could also be used to study dementia and even ‘brute force’ test the compounds that we have discovered using Quantum Computing and Generative AI.”

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Cultivated Biosciences wants to make plant-based dairy ‘feel’ more like the real McCoy

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But any company looking to develop successful plant-based food alternatives often face challenges when trying to replicate certain goods traditionally made from animal-based ingredients. “We have developed a fat-rich ingredient that you can imagine as a 20% fat cream, with a mouthfeel and colour indistinguishable from dairy.”