Israeli startup discovered an innovative way to reduce the cost of producing cultured meat and seafood, solving the key challenge to its production at scale.
is going to reveal today the “secret sauce” behind its promise to make cultured meat and seafood a commercial reality, starting with the sustainable mass production of scallops. CEO and co-founder Daniel Einhorn will talk about Mermade’s breakthrough in OurCrowd’s online event “From Mermade's lab: Algae growing in ammonia rich animal-cell culture“We are the first company in the world to use aquaponics in cell-ag,” Einhorn told me recently.
To find a solution for the need to constantly replenish the growth media, Mermade’s founders focused on the question “what else can grow in the waste?” says COO and co-founder Tomer Halevy, PhD. Knowing that algae is used for wastewater treatment, “we saw the opportunity to combine the two qualities of algae, their nutritional value and their ability to absorb ammonia directly from water and create this holistic process [of recycling the growth media],” explains Halevy.
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