Australia has been the latest country to join the lab-grown meat industry with two new companies, Heuros in Canberra and VOW in Sydney, aiming to commercialise meat grown from stem cells in a laboratory.
So far the industry has been dominated by food-tech start-ups in Europe, Israel and California’s Silicon Valley, however no company anywhere in the world has released a commercial product.
Heuros is attempting to solve the problem of how to produce the lab-grown meat on a larger scale by creating a formula for the cells to grow in that is environmentally sustainable and affordable.