By Ivy Farm on Wed Feb 07 2024
February 3rd, 2024
Ben Kinder, Ivy Farm's director of manufacturing and operations, oversees these bioreactors, clear-sided glass cylinders where pale brown liquid darkens and thickens as the cells grow over a few days.
"It's essentially a mixing tank," he says. "In there we have some beef cells at the moment, some beef muscle, stirring around. And then we've got our own culture media formulation, which is the nutrition for the cells. It's food."