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While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317

Episode 2317 Published 8 hours ago

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*Most lab-grown meat companies have already gone under. It's expensive to produce, and there's little demand from real-world consumers. But Tokyo's IntegriCulture is still standing… after selling their proprietary serum to cosmetics companies.

On Episode 3 of TWiST from Tokyo, Jason sits down with Dr. Yuki Hanyu, an Oxford-trained chemist who started a DIY meat movement out of a comic convention and turned it into Japan's first cell-cultured protein company.

PLUS why the cultivated meat market stalled out, why producing a "slurry of cells" is more efficient than jumping right to muscle tissue, the regulatory framework in Japan vs. the US, and… is it fair to call this "meat"? Or is it something else entirely?

Guest

Yuki Hanyu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuki-hanyu-b860bb34/

IntegriCulture: https://integriculture.com/en/

Relevant Links:

AG Funder News: "IntegriCulture turns a profit": https://agfundernews.com/cell-ag-picks-shovels-pioneer-integriculture-turns-a-profit-but-cautions-that-as-long-as-cell-ag-remains-so-capital-intensive-it-will-be-difficult-to-take-off

Vegconominst: Cultivated duck liver coverage: https://vegconomist.com/cultivated-cell-cultured-biotechnology/cultivated-meat/japans-integriculture-products-cultivated-duck-liver/

Cellament skin care ingredient: https://www.cellament.jp/cellament-en?lang=en

Medium: Shojinmeat Project: https://medium.com/shojin-meat

Cellular Agriculture Institute of the Commons (CAIC): https://cellagri.org/en/about-us

Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (JACA): https://jaca.jp/en/

Upside Foods: https://upsidefoods.com/

Vow: https://www.eatvow.com/