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Cultured meat startup Prolific Machines unveils its ‘Henry Ford approach’ to cell growth

TechCrunch

The global cultured meat market is poised to reach half a billion dollars by 2030; however, this kind of technology is still very much in the R&D phase for a lot of companies that have emerged over the past five years. We’ve seen a few cultured meat companies unveil their products.

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The Biotech Market

Storm Consulting

Companies may use the byproducts of creatures – such as enzymes and bacteria : to make professional products just like pharmaceuticals and fuels. The biotech market also encompasses medical systems such as cellular culture, cat breeding and fermentation.

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6 questions investors should ask when evaluating psychedelic biotech companies

TechCrunch

Once fringe, underground, illegal or just limited to ceremonial use by Indigenous cultures, psychedelics are going mainstream in medicinal form. Unlike traditional antidepressants and pharmaceuticals, psychedelic medicine has the potential to help people address the root causes of their mental health concerns rather than just symptoms.

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Psychedelics startups are on a long journey to consumer markets, but these 5 VCs are taking the ride

TechCrunch

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. But as public market sentiment fluctuates, specialized VCs seem more likely to stick around for the whole trip.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

The volatility of the travel market, the inability to know how long the pandemic would last, and pressure from travellers made Lufthansa Group realize that existing customer experience methods needed to modernize. Test, measure, and learn comes with responsibility, so it has a lot to do with a healthy failure culture and leadership.”

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Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities

TechCrunch

million in new pre-seed capital, Synonym Biotechnologies has begun the development phase for its first productized bio-manufacturing facilities for non-pharmaceutical applications. The global contract bio-manufacturing organization market, which venture-backed startups like Planetary and Culture Biosciences are doing, was estimated to be $22.2

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Mermade Seafoods swims in cell agriculture waters to make cultivated scallops

TechCrunch

Mermade Seafoods is out to disrupt the $8 billion global scallops market with its circular cellular agriculture technology approach for producing cultivated scallops. As Einhorn explains, cell-cultured foods express a biowaste just like other animals and us humans, and it is typically discarded. And also catching investors’ eyes.