Editor's choice: Reimagining the bioreactor

Until recently, few were in the market for bioreactors except big pharmaceutical companies. So, naturally, today's bioreactors are designed with chemical engineers and drug manufacturers in mind.

But making non-pharmaceutical products is an altogether different task, and while it made sense to repurpose already-existing bioreactors at the beginning of the fermentation and cultivation journeys, as companies work to scale up, it only makes sense to give the design of the well-loved bioreactor a…