Lab grown meat pioneer CellRev collapsed with debts of almost £1m,documents show

A Tyneside biotech business focused on lab grown meat production collapsed with debts of almost £1m, documents show.

Cellularevolution Ltd – which traded as CellRev – was founded six years ago by Dr Martina Miotto and Che Connon to specialise in sustainable meat production, amid aims to mass produce lab-grown meat. The Newcastle University spin-out, based at The Biosphere at Newcastle Helix, had set out to help change future meat consumption habits and to speed up the development of life-saving treatments, and was launched after a breakthrough discovery which then provided the basis for its continuous cell technology.

“Clean” or “slaughter-free” meat is grown in a lab and developed using cell-based technology, rather than animals, having initially been pioneered by a Dutch food tech fi