Microfluidics as a solution to harvesting cultured meat.

到2030年，我们的星球将无法养活生活在地球上的人们。迫切需要粮食生产的新解决方案和新的粮食来源。根据一些报告，例如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，扩大这些产品的规模已被证明是一个巨大的技术瓶颈。uFraction8开发了新型生物分离仪器，可以有效、可持续、低成本地收获和脱水细胞生物质。uFraction8已经用酵母和微藻（微型海藻）的培养物证明了这一点。今天的世界对下一件大事感到兴奋——人造肉——从动物身上提取的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要复杂得多。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，从测试uFraction8的微流体生物分离仪器中收集的结果使我们有充分的理由相信，uFraction8微流体设备将是处理肉类培养物的完美解决方案，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伦理效益是无法想象的。减少残忍，减少温室气体排放，减少工业化肉类生产中使用的抗生素和其他化学品。只有像uFraction8这样的公司能够用新兴的工业生产技术支持培养肉的创新者，这一切才有可能实现。这将使他们不仅能够证明培养肉是可能的，而且能够扩大生产规模，以满足不断增长的人口所需的能力。

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.