The Next Stage of Cellular Agriculture — In Our Homes!
Cellular agriculture is a hot emerging technology that has been heavily investigated, with many wondering when its products will finally come into the market. Large-scale production with bioreactors is integral to the production of cellular agriculture products, but they have many issues that are not optimal for distribution. If large-scale bioreactors are the issue, what if we turn to small-scale systems instead?
Introducing At-Home Bioreactors
While scaling up bioreactors is an extremely difficult task, bringing these systems to a local level could be the key to making cellular agriculture widespread. Take, for example, CellPod, an at-home plant cell bioreactor that has been in the works for a few years now.
Developed by Lauri Reuter and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, CellPod is known as “a countertop appliance that can, in theory, fill the same space in your life as a Nespresso machine does for coffee, but with fresh berry cells.”
The concept for CellPod originated from Reuter’s curiosity in the possibility of consuming cultured fruit cells made for cosmetic and medicinal products in labs. Fruit cells for strawberries, cloudberries, lingonberries, etc. are commonly cultivated in scientific environments, but no one had tried consuming…
