• Novel Farms, a California-based startup using synthetic biology for its whole cut cell-cultured meat products, announced that it has developed what it claimed to be the world’s first lab-grown pork loin showing marbling and texture. It further stated that its initial focus will be on conventional pork followed by iberian pork.

• The company mentioned it has developed a proprietary microbial fermentation technique to build scaffolds for cultivated meat production, without using biomaterials like alginate, cellulose, and mycelia to help cells adhere and form the structure of the meat (a technique used by most peers). Novel Farms claimed this would allow them to successfully grow whole cuts of meat while reducing production costs by 99.27%, leading to scaled production and price parity with conventional meats.

<ul><li> AnalystQuickTake: The cell-cultured meat sector has shown multiple developments in 2022, allowing companies to reach price parity with conventional meats, a major challenge for cultivated meat production. In July 2022, SCiFi foods achieved an R&D milestone allowing them to work toward price parity, while in August 2022, Shiok Meats announced that it had reached a coveted milestone in production cost reduction .</ul>