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Cellular Ag Series: Beyond cultivated meat – seafood, fat and chocolate
In this final installment of the cellular agriculture series, Meros analyst Sachika Onaka turns to cultivated seafood and other emerging applications of cellular agriculture, including cultivated fat and cultivated chocolate. In earlier articles, we explored the development of the cultivated…
Meros Calendar: Where we will be in Spring 2025!
We have a busy spring lined up and our team will be attending several great events in the US and EU! Connect with us if you’ll be at any of these events! We would love to meet others interested in…
Cellular Ag Series: Private funding declining, but optimism remains for other models of support
Meros co-founder Lucia Vancura kicked off January at the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA) Cellular Agriculture Innovation Day in Boston, eager to understand how investors were thinking about the cellular agriculture sector for 2025 and if it was…
Cellular Ag Series: Regulatory uncertainty still a challenge for Japan’s cultivated meat industry
With the new year underway, we continue our snapshot series on Japan’s cultivated meat industry. In this installment, Meros analyst Sachika Onaka focuses on the overseas and Japanese regulatory landscape and reflect on key regulatory developments in 2024. Overseas regulatory…
The Year of the Snake is here!
The Year of the Snake has arrived! We are ready to tackle the opportunities for transformation, growth and reinvention that the year can symbolize. We are so grateful for the clients, partners and team members who are on this journey…
Cellular Ag Series: Collaboration is the key among the players in Japan’s cultivated meat industry
Discussions have been growing in recent years on cellular agriculture’s potential role in improving food security as well as addressing consumer concerns, such as animal welfare and sustainability. In the last two years, Meros has been digging deeply into topics…
Report series on Regenerative Farming and Soil Carbon Sequestration now available!
Global interest in the role of regenerative agriculture and carbon farming continues to grow. There is deep interest in learning more about the potential of these approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and mitigate climate change risks. And…
Welcome Mako Irisumi, our summer research assistant!
Meros is geared up and ready for our new summer research assistant Mako Irisumi. Welcome! Mako is an undergraduate student at Wellesley College in the US, with a major in Computer Science and also a student researcher this past year…
Meros is growing! Welcome Sachika Onaka Adcock as a full-time research analyst!
Meros is thrilled to welcome Sachika Onaka Adcock as a full-time research analyst! Sachika originally joined our team as a full-time intern in fall of 2023. Her background and interest in global markets and food systems and environmental science were…
The Year of the Dragon has arrived!
Wishing all our partners, clients and friends a prosperous and opportunity-filled Year of the Dragon as we start the Lunar New Year season throughout Asia!
Meros presents at RIKEN’s workshop on cassava and carbon sequestration
RIKEN‘s 2nd Cassava Workshop was held on January 31, 2024 on the topic of Cassava Research and Development for a Carbon-neutral, Recycling-oriented Society. Meros’ Managing Director Chisa Ogura presented on ‘Global Trends in Commercialization of Carbon Farming and Soil Carbon…
Meros Calendar: Where can we meet this winter?
Meros has a packed schedule in the next weeks attending key industry events in Europe and Japan. We will be meeting with partners and friends and always looking to connect with others interested in innovation and business growth in the…
What are the hot topics in Japanese foodtech closing out 2023?
As 2023 draws to an end, three major foodtech topics Meros followed this year: the growing interest in circular economy, sustainability and Japan’s emerging cultivated meat sector, were all still front and center at the annual Foodtech Japan, Drink Japan…
A festive fall welcome to our newest research assistant Sachika Onaka Adcock!
A big welcome to our newest full-time fall research assistant, Sachika Onaka Adcock! Sachika is a recent graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia where she studied Physiology and Earth Sciences. Sachika spent her childhood between Australia and Himeji in…
Come join Meros at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit, Singapore, October 31- Nov 2, 2023
We are incredibly pleased to be partnering with the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit in Singapore, to be held October 31 – Nov 2, 2023. Our goal is help bring more perspectives and voices from Japan’s food and agriculture innovation scene…