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Cellular Agriculture has completed multiple runs of what it claims is the world’s longest hollow fibre bioreactor for any cell culture application, a breakthrough the company says underscores its platform’s robustness and scalability.

The UK-based company said the achievement highlights a different approach to scale than conventional systems, which often rely on increasing vessel size. Instead, Cellular Agriculture’s strategy centres on compact, modular bioreactors designed to deliver high performance within a smaller footprint.

According to the company, this modularity enables deployment in both centralised, large-scale facilities and decentralised local production sites. This flexibility, it said, allows producers to expand capacity based on demand without being constrained by existing infrastructure, making scalability “more accessible, flexible and efficient”.

The bioreactors are described as cell- and media-agnostic, which the company says could shorten time-to-market for a range of cultivated products, including meat, seafood, coffee and chocolate. While the platform was initially developed with food in mind, Cellular Agriculture noted its potential applicability across biopharma, cosmetics and plant cell culture, “opening pathways to entirely new industries”.

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