Shojinmeat ProjectThe group is in interdisciplinary organization with clusters of individuals from different technical and non-technical fields including research and development, culture medium, communication, ethics, and more. The project holds citizen science as its core value and reaches out to students and other do-it-yourself enthusiasts. Latest developments at the project include DIY incubator, DIY culture medium, kitchen cell culture protocols and high school cell culture class.
The Shojinmeat project is an open-source, non-profit, researchcitizen groupscience community interested in DIY bio cellular agriculture and the development of cultured meats. Cultured meat is grown from in vitro animal cell-cultures rather than livestock farming. The shojinmeat project was founded by Yuki Hanyu in 20152014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. The project is named after "shojin ryori" a Japanese Buddhist cuisine and reflects various values such as the commitment to nonviolence against animals and an avoidance of waste.
The group is in interdisciplinary organization with clusters of individuals from different technical and non-technical fields including research and development, culture medium, communication, ethics, and more. The project also encouragesholds citizen science, byas reachingits core value and reaches out to students and other do-it-yourself enthusiasts.
The Shojinmeat project also functions in tandemspun withoff thea startup company, which spun off theIntegriculture projectInc. The scientific research on how to make culturedcell-based meats is open-source and shared with the public, while the business logistics around scaling and sales is proprietary to the Integriculture Inc.
The project has made cell cultured foie gras, which requires less physical complexity than other foods such as burgers.
Integriculture Inc.Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan. Yuki Hanyu founded Integriculture on October 23, 2015 afteras co-foundinga thespin-off from a non-profit citizen science community Shojinmeat Project, as a way to make commercial cellar agricultural products with what he learned during hiswas timedeveloped within Shojinmeat Project.
Integriculture uses a "Coculture" approach for producing their cellular agricultural products. They have made a cell culturing system that grows muscles cells and liver cells in a connected bioreactor. The liver cells are capable of producing growth factors needed by the muscle cells, and the transfer of the growth factors to the muscle cells is taken care of by Integriculture's coculture bioreactor. These coculturing techniques allows Integriculture to significantly lower the cost of producing clean meat using cellular agricultural techniques. Coculturing is a major part of the "Culnet System" being employed by Integriculture for the large scale management of cell cultures at industrial scales. Integriculture plans on producing culturednon-food meatcellular agriculture products in 2020 at their first commercial plant in Tokyo.
On April 27, 2018 Integriculture received ¥300M (~$2.7 million USD) in seed funding from Real Tech Fund, theBeyond Next Ventures, A-FIVE (Japanese government fund), MTG, euglena and Dr. Hiroaki Kitano (CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories).
Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan. Yuki Hanyu founded Integriculture on October 23, 2015 after co-founding the non-profit cellularcitizen agriculturescience companycommunity Shojinmeat Project, as a way to make commercial cellularcellar agricultural products with what he learned during his time with Shojinmeat Project.
On MayApril 2527, 2018 Integriculture received ¥300M (~$2.7 million USD) in seed funding from Real Tech Fund, the Japanese government, Beyond Next Ventures, Euglena Co., and Dr. Hiroaki Kitano (CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories).
Yuki Hanyu founded Integriculture on October 23, 2016 after co-founding the non-profit cellular agriculture company Shojinmeat, as a way to make commercial cellar agricultural products with what he learned during his time with Shojinmeat.
On December 28, 2016 Inegriculture closed its first round of seed funding. The seed round was lead by Glocalink, who invested and undisclosed amount of money in Integriculture in exchange for the third-party allotment of new shares.
On May 25, 2018 Integriculture received ¥300M (~$2.7 million USD) in seed funding from Real Tech Fund, the Japanese government, and Dr. Hiroaki Kitano (CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories).
On April 27, 2018 Integriculture received ¥300M (~$2.7 million USD) in seed funding from Real Tech Fund, the Japanese government, and Dr. Hiroaki Kitano (CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories).
On December 28, 2016 Inegriculture closed its first round of seed funding. The seed round was lead by Glocalink, who invested and undisclosed amount of money in Integriculture in exchange for the third-party allotment of new shares.
Yuki Hanyu founded Integriculture on October 23, 2015 after co-founding the non-profit citizen science community Shojinmeat Project, as a way to make commercial cellar agricultural products with what he learned during his time with Shojinmeat Project.