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New Growth Factor Facility Opens and More Ingredient News
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New Growth Factor Facility Opens
Cultivated meat production processes are relatively expensive, making it a challenge to scale up and reach price parity with animal-based counterparts. To help reduce production costs, BioBetter is transforming tobacco plants into natural bioreactors for the production of growth factors (GFs), which play a key role in the proliferation and differentiation of cultured meat cells, allowing for the formation of authentic and well-structured muscle …
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