IngredientWerks uses genetic engineering and advanced plant breeding for molecular farming, expressing recombinant proteins in plants. IngredientWerks leverages over 15 years of plant transformation, recombinant protein cultivation, processing and deregulation expertise to develop customized, high value protein ingredients to the alternative protein market.
Learn more about IngredientWerks at ingredientwerks.com.
Learn more about IngredientWerks at ingredientwerks.com.
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Woburn
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Open Prair... | openprairi... |
| 19.05.2023 | Cultivian ... | cultivians... |
| 08.11.2023 | ARCH Ventu... | archventur... |
Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.07.2024 | 10 Molecular Farming Startups Transforming Everyday Plants into Protein Powerhouses | Today, we bring you a roundup of molecular farming startups transforming plants into biofactories to produce alternatives to animal proteins, pigments, next-gen sweeteners, and growth factors. Plant molecular farming, an additional producti... |
| 23.04.2024 | Piggy Sooy: Moolec Gains USDA Approval for Pork Proteins Grown in Soybeans | 5 Mins Read Luxembourg-based Moolec Science, which uses molecular farming to grow animal proteins in plants, has earned clearance from the US Department of Agriculture for Piggy Sooy, which are soybeans containing pork proteins. Moolec has ... |
| 25.07.2023 | Molecular farming: IngredientWerks grows heme protein in corn at ‘unprecedented low cost’ | Molecular farming startup IngredientWerks has genetically engineered corn crops to express high levels of bovine myoglobin in a process it claims can scale at a fraction of the cost of precision fermentation. A heme-binding protein found in... |
| 13.04.2023 | FDA warns molecular farming startups of risks if food allergens are not properly managed | US regulators have warned startups in the emerging field of ‘molecular farming’ that expressing animal proteins such as egg and dairy proteins in genetically engineered crops such as soybeans will require strict allergen management. Animal ... |
| 05.04.2023 | Trendwatching at Future Food-Tech, part two: From upcycled prebiotic fibers to molecular farming 2.0 | In part two of our roundup of the Future Food-Tech summit in San Francisco, we highlight startups spanning a range of fields from molecular farming to upcycled prebiotic fibers from leftover parts of crops. Comet gears up to open dedicated ... |
| 01.03.2023 | Motif FoodWorks explores molecular farming for heme proteins as precision fermentation capacity bottleneck bites | Is it more efficient to make “animal-free” meat and dairy proteins in plants or fermentation tanks? Motif FoodWorks, which currently makes myoglobin via precision fermentation, is now exploring whether corn could also serve as an effective ... |