Biotech startup, researchers revive old tech to make low-carbon protein from coal 

Coal country. AI-generated stock image by Design@22.

A Calgary-based clean energy and biotech startup is aiming to transform the way the world’s livestock is fed by providing a low-cost, low-carbon, alternative to fish or soybean meal — by tapping into an abundant Canadian resource: coal. 
 
Cvictus — which recently received a $1.7-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to scale its technology — says it is on a mission to resurrect a proven, decades-old industrial...