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With the adverse impact of climate change becoming clearer almost every day, the role of technology in mitigating these devastating effects has never been more important.  Israeli innovation – from clean energy to agriculture technology – has made massive contributions to the world’s efforts to  deal with this phenomenon, and NoCamels takes a look at […]

Chicken has long been viewed as a healthier and more economical meat option and its popularity continues to rise. In 1993, chicken overtook beef consumption per person in the United States alone. In fact, 27.5 billion pounds of beef is produced annually, compared to 43.4 billion pounds of farmed chicken, the United States Department of […]

Israeli startup ProFuse Technology, which cultivates meat from cells, has received a €2.4 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Transition program in recognition of its innovative technology.  The company was given the grant, which is funded by the European Union, after a selection process involving hundreds of applicants.  Earlier this year, ProFuse unveiled […]

Israeli innovation has the potential to solve some of the great challenges for humanity, a veteran entrepreneur believes, and she is determined to ensure it claims its rightful place in the spotlight.  Nicky Newfield created Impact Nation last fall to help startups with the potential for global impact to promote themselves and their stories, driving […]

Israeli startup ProFuse Technology has launched its new cultivated meat made from cells from bovine (cow) muscle tissue called PROFUSE-B8.  After two years of working on research and development, ProFuse has created cultivated meat without genetic modification, which according to the company, aligns with consumer preferences.  Working with its already existing technology, the process is […]

Israeli foodtech startup, Forsea Foods, has started a collaboration with vegan restaurant SAIDO in Tokyo to create two popular traditional Japanese eel dishes.  Forsea Foods has developed a unique technology to produce cultured eel meat just as it would grow in nature, without having to capture the fish and further endangering it. The dishes include […]

An Israeli startup producing lab-grown meat has received approval from the Israeli government to publicly sell its cultivated beef steaks in the country.  This is the first time that non-chicken cultivated meat has been approved for market anywhere in the world and the first time that any form of cultivated meat has been authorized for […]

At a popular Floridian steakhouse, chefs are serving up the latest addition to their mouthwatering meaty menu – a filet mignon that may look and taste like beef, but is in fact made of simple, plant-based ingredients. The meatless whole cut, created by Israeli startup Chunk Foods, is made using cultured wheat and soy, coconut […]

The Israeli food-tech startup Steakholder Foods has successfully 3D printed the first-ever, plant-based eel meat replica.  Through detailed layering of material in printing, the company replicated the authentic texture of the fish.   The company, which is headquartered in Rehovot, aims to produce plant-based printed meat that closely mimics the taste and texture as well as […]

The enigmatic, once-in-a-lifetime reproductive cycle of the freshwater eel, and the inability to breed it in captivity, has led the fish to become an endangered species, leaving the fishing industry failing to keep up with the ever-growing worldwide demand.  But an Israeli startup has developed unique technology to produce cultured eel meat just as it […]

With overfishing posing a growing threat to the global marine ecosystem, an Israeli startup has created a way of making fish products without catching any of the animals at all.  “Our oceans are running out of fish,” Sea2Cell co-founder and CEO Dr. Orna Harel tells NoCamels. “And the gap between supply and demand is increasing.”  […]

An Israeli startup has found a way to cultivate nutrients from berries, without needing to extract them from the fruits themselves.  Novella identifies plant tissues with the highest concentration of nutrients, such as in stems, fruits and flowers, and grows these specific cells in bioreactors in a method that is similar to cultivated meat. The […]

An Israeli startup believes it has made a breakthrough in its technology that will allow companies to grow cultivated meat at a far faster pace.  ProFuse Technology has developed a catalyst comprising “small molecules” that speeds up the process of growing cultivated stem cells and increases yields. Now, the company says, the fluid used to […]

In a world first, the chicken produced by an Israeli cultivated meat company has been certified kosher by the most widely recognized kashrut certification agency, just days before Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New Year).  New York-based OU Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification agency, determined that the chicken meat grown from Tel Aviv’s SuperMeat adheres […]

A startup that uses tobacco plants to stimulate the mass production of cultivated meat has opened its first-ever facility in northern Israel.  BioBetter grows tobacco plants and manufactures proteins from them, specifically insulin, transferrin, and the growth factor FGF2 – compounds that are necessary to make cultivated meat commercially viable.  The pilot plant has the […]