GFI, Tufts put financial skin in the cultivated meat game

The Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture and Good Food Institute have partnered to purchase the intellectual property from defunct cultivated meat firm SCiFi Foods and make it available to academics.

GFI bid on and won the assets at auction, including eight cell lines and the recipes for two serum-free media formulations, according to TUCCA. The assets were transferred to Tufts “for storage and validation with the intent of making them available for…