While other cultivated meat companies are collapsing, this one turned a profit | E2317

Today’s show: Most lab-grown meat companies have already gone under. It’s expensive to produce, and there’s little demand from real-world consumers. But Tokyo’s IntegriCulture is still standing… after selling their proprietary serum to cosmetics companies. On Episode 3 of TWiST from Tokyo, Jason sits down with Dr. Yuki Hanyu, an Oxford-trained chemist who started a DIY meat movement out of a comic convention and turned it into Japan’s first cell-cultured protein company. PLUS why the cultivated meat market stalled out, why producing a “slurry of cells” is more efficient than jumping right to …