Step 1

ISOLATE

Take a one-time, harmless biopsy from a single farm animal and isolate cells with ideal properties for cellular agriculture. These properties include the ability to rapidly grow and differentiate into the desired product. In theory, only one biopsy is ever needed for unlimited cellular agriculture production.

Step 2

FEED

Just as farm animals need to be fed, cells need nutrients to grow and double. Cells in a cellular agriculture system are fed nutrients like vitamins, sugars, salts, and proteins, the same as their host animals would consume on a farm. The cells consume these nutrients in a mixture called cellular media. This media is provided to cells in a Cell Cultivator, a warm, controlled environment like the one above where cells can consume the nutrients they need to multiply.

Step 3

SPECIFY

The cells then go to another controlled environment called a Product Cultivator, where they undergo a process called differentiation that allows them to form into their mature cell types such as muscle, fat, skin, or bone. This process includes the use of a scaffolding system that provides structure and direction to the cells, ultimately allowing them to merge into complete tissues.

Step 4

HARVEST

After the cells fuse into tissues, they undergo final processing steps and are ready to become their final animal product. The example above shows cow muscle cells merging to become beef and cow skin cells merging to create leather. After rigorous testing for safety and quality, a true animal product as we know them today is ready to be harvested.

Step 1

INTRODUCE

Introduce a gene from a farm animal, like a cow or chicken, into a production microorganism, a host cell that is optimized to produce animal proteins such as yeast. Integrating this farm animal gene will give the host cell instructions on how to create specific animal proteins like the ones contained within dairy products, for example.

Step 2

FEED

After those farm animal genes are seeded into the host microorganism, animal protein production at the cellular level begins. The host cells require nutrients to properly enable the cellular agriculture process to take place. Just like feeding an animal nutrients, you must also feed host cells nutrients in a controlled environment called a Fermentation Cultivator.

Step 3

PURIFY

Once the production of animal proteins is complete, the host, production cells need to be removed so only the animal proteins remain. The host cells are separated from the proteins that were produced, and only the final, purified animal proteins remain.

Step 4

HARVEST

The animal proteins undergo final processing steps and after rigorous testing for safety and quality, a true animal product as we know them today is ready to be harvested.