Future Foods volume: 14 Ivanov, Aleksandar Milčić, Miloš Gligorijević, Nikola Veličković, Luka Jovanović, Zorana Sibinčić, Nikolina Aleksić, Ljubodrag Šunderić, Miloš Stojadinović, Marija Srdić Rajić, Tatjana Takić, Marija Nikolić, Milan Krstić Ristivojević, Maja Minić, Simeon Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode Algal and cyanobacterial phycocyanins are promising alternatives to serum albumin in cellular agriculture info:eu-repo/semantics/article ABSTRACT Cultured meat may require fewer resources and is less polluting than animal meat, but it remains costly to produce. One of the critical challenges in cultivated meat science is to identify/develop fetal bovine serum (FBS) alternatives as growth supplements. Among numerous molecules present in FBS, albumin is the most abundant component, which is crucial for transporting fatty acids and the antioxidant activity of serum. Significant efforts are being invested in finding albumin alternatives due to its functional importance. This study explored the potential of phycocyanins from cyanobacteria (C-Phycocyanin) and red macroalgae (R-Phycocyanin) as albumin alternatives in media for cultivating Japanese quail myoblasts. https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:39777 doi:10.1016/j.fufo.2026.101168 application/pdf 6629173 bytes Cultured meat, Albumin, Phycobiliproteins, Phycocyanin, Fatty acids binding 2026 eng