Food

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Biotechnology

What’s cooking? How cellular agriculture is stirring up the food patent landscape

Germany-based food and pharmaceutical supply firm GEA opened its New Food Application and Technology Center (ATC) in the United States on July 17, 2025. The…
September 1, 2025
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USDA, University of Melbourne patenting biofortified wheat that improves gut health

A patent application says grains biofortified with a compound called nicotianamine can increase the crops’ absorbable or bioavailable iron, which is essential to gut health.
August 19, 2021
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How Zume’s pizza robots work (and its food delivery business that didn’t)

In 2020, California-based startup Zume shuttered its robot pizza delivery business, built around trucks that would cook food on their way to customers. We’re reviewing…
August 19, 2021
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Ajinomoto patenting ketogenic drinks to treat epilepsy

Japanese food and biotechnology company Ajinomoto is patenting a supplementary treatment for people suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy: a drinkable formula based on popular ketogenic diets.
July 16, 2021

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