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| Aug 7, 2026 | Scientists Grow Animal Protein in Tobacco & Lettuce to Enhance Plant-Based Meat | 5 Mins Read Researchers have discovered a way to grow myoglobin, a heme-containing protein that gives meat its colour and umami flavour, in genetically engineered tobacco and lettuce plants to make better-tasting meat alternatives.
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| Jul 22, 2026 | Molecular Farming Startup Plantopia Bags $9M to Grow Dairy Proteins in Oats | 4 Mins Read Israeli food tech startup Plantopia has secured $9M in funding to establish a molecular farming facility to produce casein proteins within sprouted oats.
Plantopia, a molecular farming firm growing dairy proteins in oats, has ra... |
| Jul 2, 2025 | Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Coffee, Beyond Meat x Lacrosse & Plant-Based Pakistan | 5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Chike Nutrition’s plant protein coffees, a sunflower seed meat alternative, and US physicians’ letter to the gove... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | The Future of Protein: Innovations in Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat | The world of protein production is undergoing a seismic shift. Traditional methods are being challenged by innovative technologies that promise sustainability, efficiency, and a smaller environmental footprint. Two companies, Moolec Science... |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Moolec Science Receives US Patent for Soybean Capable of Producing Porcine Heme Proteins | Moolec Science has obtained a US patent for its Piggy Sooy™ technology, a novel soybean engineered to produce high levels of porcine hemeproteins in its seeds. The patent, granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), co... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | The Future of Food: Innovations in Sustainable Protein Production | The world is at a crossroads. With a population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, the demand for protein is skyrocketing. Traditional livestock farming is a heavy burden on our planet. It consumes vast amounts of land, water, and... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Moolec Science Merges with Bioceres Group to Scale Molecular Farming Platform | Moolec Science, a producer of animal proteins through molecular farming, has entered into an all-stock business combination with Bioceres Group Limited and related entities. The deal, finalized on April 17, 2025, will position Moolec as the... |
| Jan 14, 2025 | Plantopia turns to sprouted oats for cost-effective production of animal-free dairy | Molecular farming startup Plantopia (formerly Pigmentum) aims to establish pilot-scale production of casein proteins in sprouted oats in the second half of this year, an approach it claims can enable cost competitive indoor production of an... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Molecular Farming Startup Earns USDA Approval for Peas That Produce Beef Protein | 4 Mins Read Moolec Science has received what it claims is the first USDA approval for genetically engineered peas, which can produce iron-rich beef protein via molecular farming.
Luxembourg-based molecular farming startup Moolec Science has... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Op Ed: Maya Sapir-Mir, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of PoLoPo, on Growing Animal Proteins from Potatoes | Maya Sapir-Mir is CEO and co-founder of PoLoPo, a molecular farming pioneer producing proteins directly in common crops, beginning with egg protein (ovalbumin) grown in potatoes.
PoLoPo last year raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding and ... |
| Oct 19, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Japan’s DAIZ lands $47m, Zordi emerges from stealth in US, FBN & ADM team up | Agtech’s big news this week was the emergence of US-based Zordi, which came out of stealth with its autonomous greenhouse tech. Over in foodtech, funding went to DAIZ for Japan’s ‘largest’ plant-based meat factory and a couple new developme... |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Meat proteins… in plants? Moolec Science raises $30m to expand molecular farming operation | Ag biotech startup Moolec Science has raised $30 million in cash and in-kind contributions from strategic investors via convertible notes.
A spinout of Bioceres Crop Solutions, Moolec began trading on Nasdaq in January via a SPAC (special p... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Everytable lands $25m, eFishery reels in $20m, Joyful Ventures’ alt-protein fund | This week, prepared meals service Everytable raised new funding along with cultivated fish startup Bluu Seafood and aquatech company eFishery. Outside of funding, Nextbite is facing a lawsuit over its May layoffs and Joyful Ventures launche... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| Feb 28, 2023 | Moolec Science grows molecular farming awareness with Nasdaq debut | While Moolec Science is the newest food company to debut on Nasdaq, Gastón Paladini doesn’t see becoming a public company as crossing a finish line of sorts. Instead, the CEO sees it as just the beginning.
“I personally believe this is a gr... |
| Jan 5, 2023 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Liberation Labs’ $20m seed round, Deere unveils robotic fertilizer system | This week, precision fermentation company Liberation Labs announced the final close of a large seed round and John Deere introduced more autonomy into its farming equipment. Elsewhere, food waste startup Alterpacks raised $1 million while g... |
| Jan 3, 2023 | Moolec Science begins trading on Nasdaq | Food tech company Moolec Science began trading on Nasdaq on Tuesday after its merger with LightJump Acquisition Corporation, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, completed at the end of 2022.
Moolec uses genetically modifi... |
| Dec 28, 2022 | Moolec Science Ltd. Announces LightJump Acquisition Company’s Shareholder Approval for Business Combination on Tuesday, December 27 | Moolec Science is a category creator in the alternative protein ecosystem using Molecular Farming, a disruptive technology producing animal proteins with plants.
Following the closing of the Business Combination, the Combined Company’s shar... |
| Aug 17, 2022 | ADM teams up with New Culture to scale up animal-free dairy platform | An investor in New Culture and fellow animal-free dairy co Perfect Day (which makes whey protein via microbial fermentation and announced a joint development agreement with ADM in 2018) via its ADM Ventures arm, ADM said that its “product... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Remilk teams up with Israeli food giant CBC Group to create animal-free dairy line: 'We can be as cheap as animal protein by 2024' | The products - which are set to launch within 12 months, pending regulatory approval - will feature Remilk's whey protein (beta-lactoglobulin), made via a genetically engineered strain of yeast via precision fermentation, co-founder and CEO... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Moolec Science CEO Highlights Promise of Molecular Farming for Food Security at Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins Summit | WARWICK, United Kingdom, June 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gastón Paladini, Co-Founder and CEO of Moolec Science Limited (“Moolec”) attended the two-day Future Food-Tech Alternative Proteins Summit in New York this week, where he joined fel... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Moolec Science Set To Be First Molecular Farming Startup Listed On Nasdaq | 3 Mins Read
U.K.-based Moolec Science, a food ingredients company engaged in molecular farming of animal proteins, has merged with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) LightJump. The two have confirmed the start of their business comb... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Little Leaf Farms bags $300m, Wonder lands $340m to cook meals curbside | Mega-rounds this week went to controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company Little Leaf Farms and food delivery concept Wonder. Magic Spoon, best known for its “high-protein, low carb” cereal, finally landed in retail (and raised more fu... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | $504M Moolec to Become “World’s First” Molecular Farming FoodTech Listed on Nasdaq | Moolec Science has entered a new business agreement that will see it become the first molecular farming foodtech to be listed on Nasdaq. The foodtech ingredient pioneer is aiming to become a category creator in the alternative protein lands... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Animal proteins... made by plants? 'Molecular farming’ co Moolec Science to go public via SPAC | A spinout of ag biotech firm Bioceres Crop Solutions, with staff in the US, Argentina, the UK, and the Netherlands, Moolec has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with a SPAC called LightJump Acquisition Corp in a deal ... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Moolec Science, a Pioneer in Molecular Farming and Food Ingredient Technology, to List on Nasdaq Through Business Combination with LightJump Acquisition Corp. | Moolec Science Ltd. (“Moolec”) and LightJump Acquisition Corp. (“LightJump”), a special purpose acquisition company, have entered into a definitive business combination agreement. The transaction sets Moolec’s proforma equity value at $504 ... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | ‘Proudly genetically modified…’ Moolec ‘molecular farming’ co gears up to launch bovine, porcine, proteins from GM crops in late 2024, early 2025 | The firm - which has staff in the US, Argentina, the UK, and the Netherlands, and is initially targeting the North American market – has the capability to express a variety of animal proteins in plants, from egg albumin in wheat, to whey in... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | ‘Proudly genetically modified…’ Moolec ‘molecular farming’ co gears up to launch meat proteins from GM crops | The firm - which has staff in the US, Argentina, the UK, and the Netherlands, and is initially targeting the North American market – has the capability to express a variety of animal proteins in plants, from egg albumin in wheat, to whey in... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | betterland foods unveils ‘cow-free milk’ with Perfect Day… so how close is it to the real thing? | Debuting to the trade at the Natural Products Expo West show in Anaheim next month, betterland’s lactose-free milk will be available in retailers this summer in whole and extra creamy variants, and is the first of a series of animal-free pr... |
| Feb 22, 2022 | ‘Plug and Play Topeka’ Selects 12 Startups for Third Round of Accelerator Program | The Plug and Play Topeka accelerator facilitates partnerships and mentorships with help from GO Topeka, while capitalizing on Topeka’s robust animal-health and agricultural economic ecosystems. "The future of animal-health and ag-tech ... |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Animal-free dairy heats up as Change Foods collaborates with Sigma and Violife owner Upfield, raises $12m | Founder and CEO David Bucca did not go into details of the deals with Upfield (which owns plant-based cheese brand Violife and the former Unilever spreads portfolio) and Sigma (which sells cheese, yogurt, and other foods in the US, Latin Am... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | New Culture raises $25m as 'animal-free dairy' space heats up | The funding was announced a week after General Mills dipped its toes in the animal-free dairy waters with the launch of cream cheese alternative Bold Cultr, which contains animal-free whey proteins from Perfect Day, and follows recent fun... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Moolec Science and Grupo Insud Launch Food-Tech Joint Venture | WARWICK, England, Aug. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Moolec, a science-based ingredients company using plants to produce animal proteins, and Grupo Insud, a global conglomerate with a strong presence in the manufacturing of biosimilars and other... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | General Mills explores ‘animal-free’ dairy segment via ‘development brand’ Renegade Creamery | The website for Renegade Creamery (which also has a Facebook page that launched in March), features mock-ups of cream cheese, shredded cheese, and cheese slices combining plant-based ingredients with dairy proteins made via fermentation... |
| Aug 19, 2021 | From cows, to microbes, to plants… the brave new world of animal-free dairy: In conversation with Nobell Foods | On paper, microbes might seem to have the edge over plants and animals from an efficiency perspective as they multiply fast in the right conditions, while R&D development cycles are much shorter (stakeholders can determine pretty quickl... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Moolec Science Expands Portfolio in Mission to “Address Dependency of Animal Proteins in Every Segment of the Food Industry” | Moolec Science, a global Ag-Foodtech company based in the UK whose purpose is improving the affordability of animal-free food solutions, presents its latest two developments which join its working portfolio of meat analogs made with blends ... |
| Mar 16, 2021 | Bioceres Crop Solutions Acquires Stake in Moolec Science and Enters Fast Growing Alternative Food Market | ROSARIO, Argentina & WARWICK, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 16, 2021--
Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. (“Bioceres”) (NYSE American: BIOX), a fully-integrated global provider of crop productivity solutions designed to enable the transition... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Moolec Science: World’s First Hybrid Plant & Cell-Based Alt Protein Startup Pioneers Molecular Farming | 2
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While there has been increasing talk about “hybrid” alternative proteins that harness both plant-based and cell-based technologies, there hasn’t yet been a startup that is dedicated to this emerging space – until now.... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Moolec Science: Using Molecular Farming to Make Alternative Proteins | © Moolec Science
Moolec Science is working on developing meat substitutes through “molecular farming” — the use of plant cells to produce large quantities of a substance from proteins. Previously, this technology was mostly used in the phar... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Moolec Science: Using Molecular Farming to Make Alternative Proteins | Moolec Science is working on developing meat substitutes through “molecular farming” — the use of plant cells to produce large quantities of a substance from proteins. Previously, this technology was mostly used in the pharmaceutical indust... |
