Bioreactor vats may look like something straight out of science fiction, but they play a big role in the alt-meat space for company's making products via fermentation and cell cultivation.
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Whether cultivating meat from cells or fermenting alt-meat ingredients, the modern science of alternative proteins follows a similar path: You start small, prove your concept, then scale up.
Designing a product and producing a prototype of a new food product isn't exactly easy, but scaling up — that's where the real problems begin. The science of producing products at scale is completely different, and it requires lengthy, expensive…