Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

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New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 ...

For the last two years, the cultivated meat industry has been experiencing growing pains. Many startups have shrunk, shut ...

Tufts University and the Good Food Institute are salvaging cell lines from failed startups to accelerate scalable cultivated ...

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The Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA), which seeks to enable production of meat, milk, and eggs from ...

In April, the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced its decision to phase out animal testing requirements for ...

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You will likely have heard of probiotics. These are live microorganisms that, when consumed in sufficient amounts, can benefit health. They occur naturally in foods such as yoghurt, kefir, kimchi and ...

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