CellRx on a mission to slash cost of growth factors used in cell-cultured meat production For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says UK-based CellRx, which says it can produce a proprietary version of insulin-like growth factor at a fraction of the standard price for IGF-1.
One of the many challenges facing cell-cultured meat companies is producing an affordable animal-free growth medium (early prototypes of cell cultured beef, for example, used fetal bovine serum, the liquid part of blood, a byproduct of the livestock industry, which somewhat defeats the purpose of cell-cultured meat).
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TurtleTree Labs aims to produce growth factors for cell cultured meat, milk, at fraction of price of pharma grade equivalents By Elaine Watson For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says startup TurtleTree Labs, which has created a new division dedicated to creating high-volume, cost-efficient growth factors.
Like cell-cultured meat companies,
TurtleTree Labs - which makes the key components of human breastmilk by culturing mammary cells in a bioreactor - also relies on cell culture media and growth factors to make its milk.