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Founder articles and press releases

​​2024

Academic

Goodman, M., Wylie, A., Sexton, A., Lewis, K., Rose, D., Macmillan, T., & Manning, L. (2024). Analysis of the narrative grammars of cultured meat in UK food and farming media. The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 30(2), 117-138

2024

Academic

Report

Academic/Report: MacMillan, T., Lewis, K., Dooley, J., Morgans, L.C., Sexton, A., Ali, M., Allen, S., Argyle, I., Dunsford, I., Goodman, M. and Lynch, J., 2024. Culture Clash? What cultured meat could mean for UK farming.

​​2023
2023

Academic

Manning, L., Dooley, J. J., Dunsford, I., Goodman, M. K., MacMillan, T. C., Morgans, L. C., ... & Sexton, A. E. (2023). Threat or opportunity? An analysis of perceptions of cultured meat in the UK farming sector. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, 1277511.

Academic

Stephens, N. & Sexton, A. (2023) “Talking points on the cultural politics of cultured meat” in Advances in cultured meat technology Mark Post, Che Connon and Chris Bryant (eds) Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing pp. 27-42 ​

News

Is Cultured Meat a Threat or Opportunity for UK Farmers?

​​2022

Academic

Tuomisto, H. L., Allan, S. J., & Ellis, M. J. (2022). Prospective life cycle assessment of a bioprocess design for cultured meat production in hollow fiber bioreactors. Science of the Total Environment, 851, 158051. 

2022

Academic

Stephens, N. (2022). Join our team, change the world: edibility, producibility and food futures in cultured meat company recruitment videos. Food, Culture & Society, 25(1), 32-48. 

Academic

Ellis, M. J., Sexton, A., Dunsford, I., & Stephens, N. (2022). The triple bottom line framework can connect people, planet and profit in cellular agriculture. Nature Food, 3(10), 804-806. 

2021
2021

Academic

Allan, S. J., Ellis, M. J., & De Bank, P. A. (2021). Decellularized grass as a sustainable scaffold for skeletal muscle tissue engineering. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, 109(12), 2471-2482. 

News

BBC World Service TV - BBC Minute Video, Could lab-grown meat help tackle climate change?  Featuring Alex Sexton.

2020
​​2020

Academic

Stephens, N., Ellis, M. J. (2020). Cellular agriculture in the UK: a review.

Television

Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet, Channel 4, January 2020. Featuring Illtud Dunsford.

News

Hold the beef: how plant-based meat went mainstream, February 2020. Featuring Illtud Dunsford.

2019
​​2019

News

BBC (2019) Artificial meat: UK scientists growing 'bacon' in labs. Featuring Marianne Ellis and Illtud Dunsford.

Video

 University of Bath (2019). Interview with Marianne Ellis

News

Guardian (2019) Have we hit ‘peak beef’? Featuring Abi Aspen Glencross.

Academic

Sexton, A.E., Lorimer, J. & Garnett, T. (2019). Framing the future of food: The contested promises of alternative proteins. Environment and Planning E: Nature and space, 2(1), 47-72.

​​2018
2018

Academic

Stephens, N., Di Silvio, L., Dunsford, I., Ellis, M., Glencross, A., & Sexton, A. (2018). Bringing cultured meat to market: Technical, socio-political, and regulatory challenges in cellular agriculture. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 78, 155-166.

Academic

Sexton, A.E. (2018). Eating for the post-Anthropocene: alternative proteins and the biopolitics of edibility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,43(4), 586-600.

Academic

Stephens, N. King, E. & Lyall, C. (2018) Blood, meat, and upscaling tissue engineering: Promises, anticipated markets, and performativity in the biomedical and agri-food sectors. BioSocieties13(2), 368-388.

Blog

Stephens, N. (2018) Meat grown from cells: companies clamour to put it on your plate. The Conversation

2017
​​2017

Academic

O'Riordan, K., Fotopoulou, A. and Stephens, N. (2017). The first bite: Imaginaries, promotional publics and the laboratory grown burger. Public Understanding of Science,26(2), 148-163

2016
​​2016

Video

CreativeMornings HQ (2016) Abi Aspen Glencross: Meet The New Meat.

Video

Prosocial Progress Foundation (2016) Tomorrows food: Cultured meat. Youtube documentary featuring Neil Stephens 

Video

Science Gallery Dublin (2016) ArtMeatFlesh – a unique Science Gallery Dublin cooking show. Featuring Abi Aspen Glencross.

News

Munchies (2016) Meet the scientist trying to grow steak in a lab. Featuring Abi Aspen Glencross

Policy report

Dunsford, I. Ellis, M. Glencross, A. Sexton, A. & Stephens, N. (2016) UK Cellular Agriculture: A route forward document provided to 10 Downing Street, 16th March 2016 (private document)

Private Publication

Policy report

Dunsford, I. Ellis, M. Glencross, A. Sexton, A. & Stephens, N. (2016) UK pathway to protein innovation: cellular agriculture and plant analogues Briefing document provided to 10 Downing Street, 25th May 2016 (private document) 

Private Publication

Academic

Sexton, A. (2016). Alternative proteins and the (non)stuff of ‘meat’. Gastronomica, 16(3), 66-78.

Report

Dunsford, I. (2016) On Meat: niche production, value adding, ethics and its future within cellular agriculture. A Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust Report

Academic

Stephens, N. & Ruivenkamp, M. (2016). Promise and ontological ambiguity in the in vitro meat imagescape: From laboratory myotubes to the cultured burger. Science as Culture, 25(3), 327-355.

2015
​​2015

Book

Stephens, N. Kramer, C. Denfeld & Strand, R. (eds) (2015) What is In Vitro Meat?Centre for Genomic Gastronomy ISSN 2372-6504

Policy report

Gunnarsdóttir, K. Strand, R. Stephens, N. O'Riordan, K. Fotopoulou, A. Giampietro, M. Kovacic, Z. Lemkow L. Zetterling, & Di Masso Tarditti, M. (2015) Reporting on the case study of synthetic meat: summary of findings and policy considerations Policy document submitted to the European Commission as output from the FP7 EPINET project.

2014
​​2014

Academic

Tuomisto, H. L., Ellis, M. J., & Haastrup, P. (2014). Environmental impacts of cultured meat: alternative production scenarios. In Proceedings of the 9th international conference on life cycle assessment in the agri-food sector(pp. 8-10). 

2013
​​2013

News

New York Times (2013) A Lab-Grown Burger Gets a Taste Test. Featuring Neil Stephens.

Academic

Stephens, N. (2013). Growing meat in laboratories: The promise, ontology, and ethical boundary-work of using muscle cells to make food. Configurations, 21(2), 159-181.

2012
​​2012

Blog

Stephens, N. (2012) Which Conversations website: Test tube to plate – let’s start the lab-grown burger Which? Conversation

2010
​​2010

Academic

Stephens, N. (2010). In vitro meat: Zombies on the menu. SCRIPTed, 7, 394-401.

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