About
Sciins was founded by two researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences together with SLU Holding AB.
The team has extensive knowledge and long-term experience in insects, animal physiology, animal health, nutrition, rearing, behaviour and breeding. The backgrounds and current research activities make it possible for Sciins to maintain the very highest quality level in the development of our breeding stock.
Sciins is situated in Uppsala, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences campus. Our location and network of collaborators within the University offers access to expertise and cutting-edge knowledge in the highly relevant fields of animal breeding, animal disease screening and food safety.
VISION
To provide our planet with sustainable food through healthy and productive house crickets.
OTHER INtereSTiNG cricket research
There are a lot of interesting research made around the globe when it comes to health and crickets. Following are some examples of this:
Stull V J, Finer E, Bergmans R S, Febvre H P, Longhurst C, Manter D K, Patz J A, Weir T L. 2018. Impact of Edible Cricket Consumption on Gut Microbiota in Healthy Adults, a Double-blind, Randomized Crossover Trial
Stull V J, Weir TL. 2023. Chitin and omega-3 fatty acids in edible insects have underexplored benefits for the gut microbiome and human health
research MADE OF OUR FOUNDERS
The research made by our founders have been fundamental to producing high quality breeding stock for a viable and sustainable insects-as-food industry, following are some examples of their scientific publications:
Low M, Eksell I, Jansson A, Berggren Å. 2022. Viral infection changes the expression of personality traits in an insect species reared for consumption. Scientific Reports 12:9503
De Miranda R J, Granberg F, Low M, Onorati P, Semberg E, Jansson A, Berggren Å. 2021. Virus Diversity and Loads in Crickets Reared for Feed: Implications for Husbandry. Frontiers in veterinary Science 8:642085.
Vaga, M., Berggren, Å., Pauly, T and Jansson, A. 2020. Effect of red clover-only diets on house crickets (Acheta domesticus) growth and survival. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed: 6 (2), 179 -189.
Fernandez-Cassi X., K. Söderqvist , A. Bakeeva , M. Vaga , J. Dicksved , I. Vagsholm , A. Jansson, S. Boqvist. 2020. Microbial communities and food safety aspects of crickets (Acheta domesticus) reared under controlled conditions. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed: 6 (4), 429 – 440.
Berggren, Å., Jansson, A. and Low, M. 2019. Approaching Ecological Sustainability in the Emerging Insects-as-Food Industry. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34, 132-138.
Fernandez-Cassi X, Supeanu A, Vaga M, Jansson A, Boqvist S and Vagsholm I. 2019. The house cricket (Acheta domesticus) as a novel food: a risk profile (Review). Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 5, 137-157.
Semberg, E., de Miranda, JR, Low, M., Jansson, A., Forsgren, E. and Berggren, Å. 2019. Diagnostic protocols for the detection of Acheta domesticus densovirus (AdDV) in cricket frass. Journal of virological methods 264, 61-64.
Miech, P., Berggren, Å. Lindberg, J.E., Chhay, T., Khieu, B. and Jansson A. Growth and survival of reared Cambodian field crickets (Teleogryllus testaceus) fed weeds, agricultural and food industry by-products. 2016. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 2, 285-292.