In my forthcoming book, Unnaturally Delicious, I've got a chapter on the promises and challenges of efforts underway to produce lab-grown meat. My chapter focuses mainly on the efforts of a Dutch scientists, Mark Post.
This article in Tech Crunch discusses related efforts by a different group of scientists and investors.
“Impossible Foods, a four-year-old, Redwood City, Ca.-based company at work on a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants, has raised $108 million in new funding from a powerful group of backers.
Investors in the round, which was led by UBS, include Viking Global Investors and earlier backers Khosla Ventures; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates; and Horizons Ventures, which invests on behalf of Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing.”
Those are some heavy hitters. It will be interesting to see where it all goes.