CULT Food Science Corp has announced the launch of Open Cell Ag, a cellular agriculture network of excellence in collaboration with New Harvest Corp and other partners, to advance foundational knowledge for the cellular agriculture industry.
The network of excellence, the first of its kind, will gather and manage projects and partners who can support the execution and advise on the creation of foundational cellular agriculture infrastructure, methods and knowledge, which will be shared globally, the company said.
It added that the launch of the network of excellence coincides with the start of its first project, the development of a cell bank to provide a common solution to some of the basic infrastructure challenges that new cellular agriculture groups may face.
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“More projects will be announced as Open Cell Ag progresses,” said the investment platform.
CULT’s CEO Lejjy Gafour said common frameworks and open knowledge exist in other industries and can be a fundamental step towards the adoption of new technologies more broadly.
“Cellular agriculture as an industry is relatively new and has yet to develop openly available common tools and techniques that can be utilized by both businesses and researchers in their early stages to accelerate the development of their work,” he added.
Separately, CULT said it supports the call by New Harvest, a non-profit organization dedicated to the evolution of the global food system through cellular agriculture since 2004, for additional funding.
“As one of the organizations driving the origin of cellular agriculture, CULT supports New Harvest’s continued mission to drive forward the future of cellular agriculture globally,” the company added.
The first-of-its-kind in North America, CULT provides investors with unprecedented exposure to the most innovative start-up, private and early-stage cultivated meat, cultured dairy and cell-based foods companies around the world.
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