Improving efficiency and assessment of adaptation to suspension growth
Improving methods for adapting cells to suspension culture can facilitate cell line development and bioprocess design for cultivated meat.
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Cultivated
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R&D
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Bioprocess design
Cell line development
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Seafood-relevant
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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1 – Inception
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Research
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Industry
Science
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Guidelines for cultivated meat starter cell selection
Improving our understanding of the relative advantages and disadvantages of different cell types for cultivated meat would enable companies to make these decisions more effectively with less duplicative effort.
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Cultivated
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R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Cell line development
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Seafood-relevant
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Academics
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1 – Inception
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Research
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Science
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Guaranteed offtake contracts for products and ingredients
Guaranteed offtake agreements, where buyers commit to purchase a volume of product, can help secure loans for infrastructure and other high-cost projects.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
Investment
Production
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End product formulation & manufacturing
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Species-agnostic
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Industry
Policymakers
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
Ecosystem
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Industry
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Dedicated broker or exchange for plant-based B2B sales
Opportunity exists for a broker, marketplace, directory, or other exchange platform to facilitate B2B sales of plant-based foods as ingredients to manufacturers of frozen and prepared foods.
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Plant-Based
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Business Services
Distribution Channels
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Species-agnostic
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Industry
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
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Industry
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Next-generation plant-based turkey products
There has been little in the way of publicly-announced R&D or commercial efforts to develop the next generation of tasty and affordable plant-based turkey products. There is room for innovation…
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Plant-Based
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End Products
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End product formulation & manufacturing
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Terrestrial-specific
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Industry
Investors
Startups
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
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Industry
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Forging product development partnerships among ingredient suppliers and manufacturers
Opportunities exist to coordinate product development partnerships between ingredient suppliers, strategic partners, and product manufacturers to directly engage more holistically on product formulation.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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End Products
Production
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Cell culture media
Crop development
Feedstocks
Ingredient optimization
Scaffolding
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Species-agnostic
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GFI
Industry
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
Ecosystem
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Industry
Science
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Developing open-access model production facility blueprints
Open-access blueprints would provide a head start on facility design and allow equipment manufacturers and engineering companies to address standard industry needs.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
Plant-Based
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Production
R&D
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Bioprocess design
End product formulation & manufacturing
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Species-agnostic
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GFI
Industry
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
Research
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Industry
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Comprehensive microbial screening to identify new protein production candidate strains
Metabolic and physiological characteristics of microbial strains define the commercial potential of any fermentative process, but only a minimal number of strains have been scaled up for commercial production of…
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Fermentation
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Production
R&D
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Host strain development
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Species-agnostic
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
Research
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Industry
Science
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Development and industry-wide adoption of standards for meat characterization
A more comprehensive understanding of the processes, structures, and molecular constituents governing meat’s organoleptic properties will inform the production of alternative proteins.
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Cultivated
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End Products
R&D
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End product formulation & manufacturing
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Seafood-relevant
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Academics
GFI
NGO’s
Startups
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1 – Inception
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Research
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Industry
Science
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Growth factors from conditioned cell culture media
Rather than relying on recombinant growth factors, cultivated meat companies could use conditioned media from animal cells producing high levels of these molecules.
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Cultivated
Fermentation
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R&D
Raw Materials, Ingredients, & Inputs
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Cell culture media
Target molecule selection
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Seafood-relevant
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Academics
Industry
Startups
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1 – Inception
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Commercial
Research
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Industry
Science
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