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Front cover of textbook featuring a piece of salmon

Cellular agriculture textbook, edited by TUCCA director David Kaplan, published by Elsevier

With 33 chapters, the textbook aims to be the definitive resource for cell ag newcomers and veterans alike.

Photo of the two students featured in the article standing side by side.

Making Students’ Cellular Agriculture Dreams Come True

This fall, Tufts launched the world’s first undergraduate degree in cellular agriculture—a minor that allows students to take a deep dive into the groundbreaking field.

Cell-cultured meat is far from dead, but it’s time for a trillion-dollar Biden moonshot

If alternative proteins are ever going to solve their myriad challenges, the government needs to make massive, infrastructure-level investment.

At its production facility in Emeryville, California, Upside Foods grows meat in vessels ranging from 1 L bottles to 2,000 L tanks.

Inside the effort to cut the cost of cultivated meat

Can cheaper ingredients, like TUCCA's rapeseed-derived substitute for recombinant albumin, help this technology compete with the farm?

Wanda Fish navigates VC waters to catch $7M for production of cultivated bluefin tuna

It has an exclusive licensing and sponsored research agreement with Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture.

Stern Professor David Kaplan (back row center) and members of the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture team at the Better Meat Co., a Sacramento-based company that produces mycoprotein.

A Taste of Life Beyond the Lab

Doctoral candidates at Tufts Center for Cellular Agriculture tour Bay Area companies creating lab-grown meat products.

A piece of Good Meat’s cultivated chicken is lifted off a plate at the Eat Just office on July 27, 2023, in Alameda, California

Governments have put $1 billion toward making better meat alternatives. A lot more is needed.

We can grow no-kill meat at scale — it’s just a matter of funding.

After years of promise, cell-based meat is moving from the lab to dinner plates

What happens when cultivated meat PhD students actually taste cellular agriculture products for the first time?

A student at the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture shows a clump of meat cells grown in the lab.

What exactly is lab-grown meat? Here’s what you need to know.

National Geographic highlights TUCCA's work in cell line development and nutritional engineering of cultivated meat.