Each month, it surfaces a handful of recent patent filings and breaks down what they cover and why they matter. They sit in public databases, dense with claims and diagrams, describing the incremental problems that actually determine whether cultivated meat, fish, and leather reach a plate or a production line. NH Foods, the largest meat producer in Japan, has filed a method for making high-moisture plant-based meat with the coarse, tearing fiber structure of beef or pork rather than the soft uniformity most plant proteins default to. In the disclosed experiments, cells treated with the single compound reached 36% differentiation against 14% in the control. Image: Edward Jenner on PexelsReplacing serum with microbesTufts University, home to one of the field’s leading cellular agriculture labs, is going after the single most expensive ingredient in cultivated meat: fetal bovine serum.