Alt Meat

SCET is the home of the Alt: Meat X-Lab at UC Berkeley. Students create innovative ventures in our AltMeat: Product Design of Plant-Based Foods Challenge Lab course.

Future of Cultured Meat Businesses

Alt: Meat Lab Director Comments on the Future of Lab-Grown Meat

In an article by The Counter, a newsroom that investigates…

Berkeley Alternative Meats X-Lab Partners with Thimus to Explore How Food Neuroscience can Transform Food Systems

The partnership will allow UC Berkeley faculty and students to…

How Design Thinking Can Help Create Affordable Meat Alternatives

SCET Alt:Meat Lab Director Co-Authors Chapter in ‘Design Thinking for…

Impact Food Wins the Esteemed Hult Prize

Impact Food has just won the Hult Prize! The UC…

Amid COVID-19, the Alt: Meat Lab continues its research

Picture of alumni speaking at challenge lab on plant based meat

“Favorite Class at Berkeley”: Alumni Reflect On Their Pathway to Plant-Based Meat

Halle Nicole Readfearn doesn’t have to worry about stray eggshell…

Needfinding, Design Thinking, and Alternative Meat: A Conversation With Anne Fletcher

An edited transcription of some of the questions that came up during Alyssa Plese’s conversation with Anne Fletcher, where they spoke about need-finding, design thinking, and the role they will play in Fletcher’s upcoming challenge lab.

Paid Research Opportunity with Berkeley Alt. Meat Lab and Millipore Sigma: Clean Meat/Lab Grown Meat

Interested in researching alternative meat? The Berkeley Alt. Meat Lab…

Berkeley Food Institute and Alt.Meat Lab Join Forces to Research Legumes

By Alyssa Plese | June 18, 2019 The Berkeley Food Institute and the…

Alt.Meat Lab receives funding to help startups develop alternatives to animal products

UC Berkeley’s Alternative Meats (Alt.Meat) Lab has received $125,000 from…