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How Malaysia's Cell AgriTech is Quietly Building it's Meat Future by Charging the Chicken
The location? Cell AgriTech Malaysia’s first cultivated meat production facility. The message? This is how the protein transition actually happens. Not through TED Talks and Silicon Valley sermons, but by embedding next-gen protein into the rhythms of daily life. Meat and mobility, side by side.
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Did China Just Try to Sabotage America’s Food Supply with Deadly Wheat Virus?
Two Chinese nationals have been charged by the FBI after attempting to smuggle a dangerous fungus into the United States. Not just any deadly wheat virus in the form of a mould - Fusarium graminearum, the crop-wrecking culprit behind Fusarium Head Blight. This isn’t a garden-variety contaminant. It’s a pinkish, spore-spewing agri-menace capable of decimating wheat, corn, barley and rice...
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Wonky Box Launches 'Wonky Flowers' to Combat Floral Waste
It started with lettuce. Now it’s flowers. Wonky Box New Zealand, the quirky produce disruptor known for rescuing twisted carrots and freakishly large parsnips, is turning its attention to the blooms we gift, grieve with, and guiltily forget to water. Emerge 'Wonky Flowers'!
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KiwiFruit Into Cowhide? NZ Startup Reinvents Waste with Plant-Based Leather
Forget feedstock, New Zealand’s kiwifruit rejects are being stitched into a very different future. At the centre of it all is KiwiLeather Innovations, a next-gen biomaterials company quietly turning over 50,000 tonnes of orchard discards into a new kind of plant-based leather.
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Rocket-Fuelled Romaine? Australia Trials Space-Grown Greens
Sustainable plant-based food production is heading to space, with Australian scientists preparing to trial next-gen tech that could one day
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Seaweed Slime to High-Tech Gold as New Kiwi Nanocellulose Plant Could Signal End of Plastic Era
Forget oil. The future is slimy and it’s growing in the small New Zealand town of Paeroa. A new pilot plant is set to churn out 1.6 tonne
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Hot Off the Press a 3D-Food Printer That Cooks Itself -Yes, Really
Forget clunky kitchen gadgets and over hyped air fryers because scientists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have ju
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How Psychobiotics and Nootropics Are Hijacking Your Brain (In a Good Way)
Probiotics used to be all about digestion - think yogurt, kombucha, and gut health 101. But now? They're eyeing your brain.
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Kombucha’s Secret Weapon -The SCOBY on Your Kitchen Benchtop May Hold the Future of Wound Healing
At the heart of this medical innovation is the living tissue found in the kombucha SCOBY (shown below), the symbiotic culture of bacteria an
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NZ’s Science Revamp But Can It Drive ‘Future Food’ Innovation or Risk Banana Republic Stagnation?
The New Zealand government has unveiled its long-awaited science revamp, aiming to position the country as a leader in innovation while addr
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Kiwi Vegetable Growers to Harness Geothermal Energy for Sustainable Greenhouse Heating
New Zealand's vegetable producers are poised to embrace geothermal energy to transform greenhouse and vertical farming operations, moving aw
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Why a Biofuel Boom Could Benefit a Tiny Kiwi Tourist Town and Create a Centre for Sustainable Aviation Fuel
#earthhack Rotorua, famed for its geothermal landscapes, could become a global hub for sustainable biofuel innovation and it has the backing
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