Cultivated calories

EATING chicken that started out in a biotech lab, not a farm, may be good for one's green credentials, and arguably for health too.

And indeed startups developing cell-grown meats in Singapore are making their way up the cultivated meat food chain. Problem is, producing it is far from cheap - averaging in some cases, US$1,000 for each kilogram of meat. Brunch, in The Business Times Weekend, speaks to the deep-tech players exploring ways to lower the production costs, convinced of the future of cultivated meat.

Meanwhile, if you've never heard of xDrive, it's a BMW engineer's idea of four play. And now every version of the BMW X3 has it here. Find out what else is new about BMW's best-selling SUV in this week's Steering Column.

And in a new monthly column Dawn Patrol, BT writer Kelly Ng - who starts most days with a run, chasing up the sun - shares about her musings over the miles.