Microfluidics as a solution to harvesting cultured meat.

微流体作为收获培养肉的解决方案。

• 批准号: 10050215
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: UFRACTION8 LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10050215
• 关键词: Microfluidics; solution; harvesting; cultured; meat.

By 2030, our planet will not be able to feed the people living on it. New solutions for food production as well as new food sources are pressingly needed.According to several reports, such as https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/combating-climate-crisis-with-alternative-protein, using cell cultures is one of the most promising solutions to combat future population hunger. However, scaling up those productions has been shown as a massive technological bottleneck.uFraction8 developed novel bio-separation instruments that can effectively, sustainably, and at low cost, harvest and dewater cellular biomass. uFraction8 has already proven this with cultures of yeast and microalgae - microscopic seaweeds.Today's world is excited about the next big thing - cultured meat - where just a few cells taken from the animal can allow the production of thousands of burgers. However, working with animal cells is much more complex than culturing or fermenting yeast and microalgae. Mammalian cells are not only notoriously difficult to grow but also very sensitive to external factors, making processing cultured meat an extremely difficult task.Results collected to date from testing uFraction8's microfluidics bio-separation instruments give great bases to believe that uFraction8 microfluidics devices will be a perfect solution for handling meat cultures, enabling industrial production of non-kill meat.The ecological and ethical benefits of such meat production are beyond imagining. Reduction of cruelty, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, reduction of antibiotics and other chemicals used in industrial meat production. All that is possible only if companies like uFraction8 can support cultured meat innovators with emerging technologies for industrial production which will allow them not only to prove that cultured meat is possible but also to scale productions to the capacity needed to feed our constantly growing population.

到2030年，我们的地球将无法养活生活在地球上的人们。迫切需要新的粮食生产解决方案以及新的食物来源。根据几份报告，如https：//www.bcg.com/publications/2022/combating-climate-crisis-with-alternative-protein，使用细胞培养是对抗未来人口饥饿的最有希望的解决方案之一。然而，扩大这些生产已被证明是一个巨大的技术挑战。uFraction 8开发了新的生物分离仪器，可以有效地，可持续地，以低成本，收获和回收细胞生物质。uFraction 8已经通过酵母和微藻（微小的海藻）的培养证明了这一点。当今世界正为下一个大事件--培养肉而兴奋--只需从动物身上提取几个细胞就可以生产出数千个汉堡。然而，使用动物细胞比培养或发酵酵母和微藻复杂得多。众所周知，哺乳动物细胞不仅难以生长，而且对外界因素非常敏感，这使得加工培养肉成为一项极其困难的任务。迄今为止，uFraction 8微流控生物分离仪器的测试结果为我们提供了充分的依据，使我们相信uFraction 8微流控设备将成为处理培养肉的完美解决方案。使非屠宰肉类的工业化生产成为可能。这种肉类生产的生态和道德效益是无法想象的。减少残忍，减少温室气体排放，减少抗生素和工业肉类生产中使用的其他化学品。只有像uFraction 8这样的公司能够支持培养肉创新者的新兴工业生产技术，这不仅可以证明培养肉是可能的，而且还可以将生产规模扩大到满足不断增长的人口所需的能力。