Re:meat - cultivated beef
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Re:Meat AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 050 000 |
| Project duration | November 2024 - August 2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Acceleration of deep tech companies |
| Call | Acceleration of deep tech companies 2024 |
Purpose and goal
Re:meat´s mission is to redefine how meat ends up on our plates. Same meat. New technology. To make tasty sustainable meat affordable for the many people, Re:meat develops disruptive technology for efficient cultivated meat production. Re:meat´s unique production methods mirrors the process of brewing beer, using muscle cells donated from a free-ranging Swedish cow. The goal of the project is to validate the cell culture in a bioreactor that is of an industrially representative size (TRL5).
Expected effects and result
Contribute with new data and innovation to the cultivated meat industry that could trigger large-scale production of cultivated meat by radically lowering production costs to open up the market and create a consumer demand. The project focuses on demonstrating cell growth in suspension with high yield, as well as a cheap and efficient growth media. A change in the way we produce meat with a potentially 92% lower greenhouse gas emissions (CO2 equivalents) would have one of the biggest climate impacts.
Planned approach and implementation
The first project phase targets to demonstrate efficient cell growth with cells in suspension (growing freely in 3D). Activities such as promoting suspension growth via adaptation protocols such as adaptation to spheroid suspension. We begin by seeding cells to promote spheroid formation then gradually scale up the volume using shaking flasks, eventually progressing to small bioreactors. Based from learnings at lab scale we can define the parameters for suspension growth at larger scale.