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Bioprocessing for Modern Food

You lead the way to new ways of food bioprocessing. At Eppendorf, we are dedicated to paving your path. The food industry is facing a revolutionary transformation. Emerging production technologies offer more plant-based and animal-free food alternatives that promise to reduce the issues related to livestock – from deforestation to microbial antibiotic resistances, and concerns regarding poor animal welfare.
Whether it is the creation of cultured meat from stem cells, or the production of modern food using fermentation, come and talk to us, we are all ears.

How to cultivate stem cells for cultured meat?

Cultured meat is genuine animal meat that is made of stem cells in the lab to eliminate the need to raise and farm animals for food. The stem cells are obtained from an animal by a harmless biopsy and grown in bioreactors to achieve large-scale volumes. Subsequently, a combination of scaffolding and chemical signals is used to provide structural support and direct differentiation of cells into the desired meat product.

Stirred-tank bioreactors are the cultivation system of choice to strictly control the cells’ growth environment and to scale up cell production from small numbers used in the R&D phase to the mass generation of cells. Find out more about the value of bioreactors for cultured meat production and how to optimize stem cell bioprocessing.

Learn more about stem cell bioprocessing

Eppendorf has many years of expertise in the cultivation of stem cells in bioreactors. Find more information about our product solution as well as expert advice on how to get started and how to optimize your stem cell bioprocess.

Title page of book chapter: Bioreactors for cultured meat

Bioreactors for cell multiplication in cultured meat product development

In this book chapter -part of the book "Advances in cultured meat technology"- we discuss the bioreactor's principle and structure, how to create a stem cell niche in a bioreactor, how to scale-up, and more.

Eppendorf solutions to produce food in the lab

Bioprocessing for modern food is unique to every business and might be based on stem cells, other eukaryotic cell types, or bacteria. At Eppendorf, we pay attention to your specific challenge and we focus on empowering your business with tailored bioprocess solutions.

Application flexibility: Cultivation of stem cells, mammalian cell lines, and microorganisms
Scalability: Working volumes from 65 mL to 2,400 L
Process optimization: Innovative hardware and software solutions to optimize process control, automate tasks, and harness the power of your data
Time-saving and risk mitigation: BioBLU^® Single-Use Bioreactors can be used as an option with most Eppendorf bioprocess systems to reduce the contamination risk and save setup time

Bacterial fermentation

Discover how our solutions can help you take your bacterial fermentation to new heights.

Yeast fermentation

Find out how we can help pave your path to optimized yeast fermentation processes.

Stem cell culture

We aim to help you bring your stem cell bioprocess to the next level. Find out more!

Customer stories

The real experts are our customers. Meet some of them and find out what their work is all about.

Making meat molecules in bioreactors

In this interview, the CEO of Paleo explains how parallel bioreactors help them save time and money when developing precision fermentation processes for the production of meat compounds.

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Towards healthy, sustainable meat without animal harm

Mewery's vision is to offer cultured pork. But how can muscle and fat cells be produced at a large scale? Bioreactors are established systems for reproducible large-scale cell cultivation and the company chose the SciVario^® twin bioprocess controller to establish suspension culture systems and scale up biomass production. They expect that it will help them in the future to develop a deep understanding of the critical process parameters to optimize cell culture biomass yields.

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Are bioreactors the new "fish tanks"?

Find out more about bioprocessing for culturing fish in the lab in the article by Marcelo Szpilman, Executive Director at Sustineri Piscis .
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Cellular agriculture: The versatility of stem cells

In this interview, Mark Post talks about the biggest challenges for the production of cultured meat. Mark Post is CSO at Mosa Meat, who is pioneering cultured meat and created the world’s first cultured hamburger.

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Upstream bioprocessing in food and feed applications

There are many interesting examples in the literature of how researchers tackle the challenges in food and feed applications, both old and new. In this white paper we introduce several of them that provide valuable insights and ideas.

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Bioprocessing for Modern Food