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Interest in animal cell-based meat (ACBM) as an environmentally conscious replacement for livestock production has been increasing; however, a life cycle assessment (LCA) for the existing production methods of ACBM...

By Noramay Cadena and Minami Ogawa Supply Change Capital (SCC) invests in technologies to transform the food system. Sometimes, the deals we consider utilize cutting-edge scientific techniques, and they are...

One Bio—a UC Davis spinoff with proprietary technology to chop up polysaccharides from agricultural waste into “odorless, colorless, and tasteless” fibers that can be added to foods at high inclusion...

Proteins are the workhorses of life, executing virtually every biological function on Earth. The human body alone is composed of about 100,000 unique proteins that enable us to think, see,...

The 2024 IIFH Partner Summit brought together forward-thinking leaders from industry, investors, academia, startups, foundations, research institutions and more. It is this level of uncommon collaboration that is at the...

Dr. Justin Siegel and Dr. Robert Hall join the Foodie Pharmacology podcast for a conversation about what the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is doing to better understand global...

By Minami Ogawa, Innovator Fellow, Supply Change Capital Food has always been at the heart of my journey. From the storybooks my mom read to me, I vividly remember being...

What questions does PTFI research try to answer? Some of our big research questions are: What is in food? That’s really an entire scientific enterprise–wide question that we have at...

At the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health’s 2024 Partner Summit, H. Rao Unnava, dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management interviews Christian Tillegreen, director of...

Technology advancements pave the way to enhance the efficacy of proteins through enzymes — proteins that transform physical matter. Novel computational and experimental tools and AI enable enzyme innovation for...

The University of California, Davis announced an expanded collaboration with the BioInnovation Institute (BII) to accelerate commercialization of discoveries in protein nutrition important to consumers around the world. Funded by the...

The University of California (UC) Davis, US, has created an environment where research and industry join forces to develop innovations in the food system, driven by the university’s Innovation Institute...