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Cultivated
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Deep dive: Cultivated meat cell culture media
Learn more about cell culture media used in cultivated meat production.
Co-culturing cells
GFI grantee Dr. Mariana Petronela Hanga is researching culturing different cell types at the same time.
Designing cost-effective bioreactors
Learn about Dr. Marianne Ellis’s work at University of Bath to reduce the cost of bioreactors for cultivated meat production.
3-D printing bioinks
Learn about GFI grantee Dr. Sara Oliveira’s work 3D bioprinting scaffolds for cultivated meat the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Portugal.
Deep dive: Cultivated meat scaffolding
Learn about scaffolding materials and methods for cultivated meat.
Optimizing media for chicken cells
Learn about Dr. David Block’s work to perfect growth media for cultivated chicken at University of California, Davis.
Making muscle cells
Learn about Dr. Ori Bar-Nur’s research to convert bovine and porcine fibroblasts into proliferative myogenic progenitor cells at ETH Zurich.
Deep dive: Cultivated meat bioprocess design
Learn about the bioprocess design parameters critical to the development of cultivated meat.
