Milk without the Cow, Cultured Meat, Silk Soap, Lab-Grown Shoes, and More: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the Week of December 18th
December 18, 2020
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) “Think of the children” who won’t know that meat comes from life, not from labs, says the France ag minister who poo-poo’d cultivated meat, yet Israel’s prime minister championed cultivated meat calling it a “powerhouse” and a way to save the cows. While that debate goes on, milk rethinker Remilk raised $11.3 million for their dairy products using microbial fermentation without cows.
In today’s Digest, we also have pure silk acting as a co-surfactant that could be used in soap formulations, lab-grown shoes composed of nanofibers of cellulose assembled by bacteria, and other innovations pushing the edge. READ MORE
