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Wild Type raises $3.5M to reinvent meat and fish for the 21st century

Image: Ruth Hartnup, Smoked salmon, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
Image: Ruth Hartnup, Smoked salmon, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

Start-up Wild Type have raised $3.5 million towards the development of a platform and set of technologies that they hope could allow any type of meat to be cultured in the laboratory.

While Wild Type will start by focusing on salmon, co-founder Justin Kolbeck told TechCrunch, “We didn’t want to build a tool that could just be used for beef, or a specific type of chicken, or a specific fish”.

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