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Q: What do Lou Cooperhouse and Winston Churchill have in common?
A: They both believe in growing only the part of the chicken or fish or beef you actually want to eat.
Amazingly, Churchill had this idea 90 years ago. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken, in order to eat a breast or a wing, by growing these parts separately, under a suitable medium,” the Great Man wrote in 1931.
A century later, here in San Diego, Lou Cooperhouse looks like he’s making that exact miracle happen, except with fish. He has found out how to create “whole-muscle, cell-based seafood products, in which living cells are isolated from fish tissue, placed into culture media for proliferation, and then assembled into great-tasting fresh and frozen seafood products.”
Lab-grown fish startup BlueNalu lands $60 million to build out factory By Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Published: January 24, 2021, 6:08am
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San Diego startup BlueNalu, which is growing fish fillets in a lab directly from real fish cells, has raised $60 million in convertible debt financing to build out a pilot factory, continue to pursue regulatory approval and launch its seafood in restaurants.
The 3-year-old firm, which was featured on CNBC’s Streets of Dreams with Marcus Lemonis on Tuesday, is developing cell lines to grow up to eight species of seafood with mahi-mahi and bluefin tuna targeted as its initial products.
San Diego startup BlueNalu, which is growing fish fillets in a lab directly from real fish cells, has raised $60 million in convertible debt financing to build out a pilot factory, continue to pursue regulatory approval and launch its seafood in restaurants.
The 3-year-old firm, which was featured o
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San Diego startup BlueNalu, which is growing fish fillets directly from real fish cells, has raised $60 million in convertible debt financing to build out a pilot factory, continue to pursue regulatory approval and launch its seafood in restaurants.
The 3-year-old firm, which was featured on CNBC’s Streets of Dreams with Marcus Lemonis on Tuesday, is developing cell lines to grow up to eight species of seafood with mahi-mahi and bluefin tuna targeted as its initial products.
Depending on the pace of U.S. Food and Drug Administration review, BlueNalu could roll out its first cell-based mahi-mahi this year, said President and Chief Executive Lou Cooperhouse.