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Commercialization of bioprinting technology

Figure 4. Consumer survey on in vitro meat.

Table 2. Cell-based meat companies.
Cell source species Bioprinting Non-bioprinting companies
Mammals Meal Source Technologies Wild Earth Bio. Tech. Foods
Aleph Farms LabFarm New Age Meats
Fork and Goode Mosa Meat Meatable
Meatech Biftek. Co. MiraiFoods
Higher Steaks Biofood
Cell Farm
Seafood BlueNalu Avant Wild Type
Finless Foods Seafuture
Future Fields Shiok Meats
Clean research
Poultry JUST Gourmet
Bond Pet Foods SuperMeat
Clear Meat Peace of Meat
Integriculture Vital Meat
Multi-species Future Meat Technologies Memphis meats Cellular Agriculture
VOW Foods Mission Barns

by algae will create self-sustaining systems, Early prototypes of this technology were
which would in turn eliminate any need for produced in joint experiments by 3D Bioprinting
resupply runs. Moreover, the self-sustaining Solutions and Aleph Farms [85,86] . In these
[84]
systems allow astronauts to directly control experiments aboard the ISS, magnetic bioprinting
and adjust their diet to combat specific medical was used to assemble spherical constructs out
conditions such as muscle atrophy and osteopenia, of spheroids, made from animal and fish cells.
which arise during prolonged space travel. Both 3D Bioprinting Solutions and Aleph
In addition to meeting specific medical and Farms carried out extensive research in tissue
nutrition requirements, these systems also allow engineering, developed originally for regenerative
crewmembers to select palatability preferences as medicine purposes, to create food products
bioprinting can be used to create distinct texture from multiple tissue types (e.g., myoblasts,
and palatability characteristics in the food that fibroblasts, adipocytes, and blood vessels).
can help crewmembers to endure all the various Multiple companies across the world embrace
psychological hardships of long-duration space this approach, transferring bioprinting advances
travel. from tissue engineering to food tech.

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