>While many cultivated meat and seafood companies employ “adherent” techniques that attach growing cells to microcarriers, BlueNalu says it has developed non-GMO cell lines in single cell suspension, meaning large numbers of cells can freely grow in bioreactors without the need for costly microcarriers.
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>In addition, BlueNalu reveals its patent-pending lipid-loading technology allows cultivated muscle cells to actively store fat, eliminating the need to grow muscle and fat cells in separate bioreactors. This technique is projected to significantly reduce capital expenditures, the company says, and will create products with higher fat profiles and better taste, texture and mouthfeel attributes.

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>While many cultivated meat and seafood companies employ “adherent” techniques that attach growing cells to microcarriers, BlueNalu says it has developed non-GMO cell lines in single cell suspension, meaning large numbers of cells can freely grow in bioreactors without the need for costly microcarriers.
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>In addition, BlueNalu reveals its patent-pending lipid-loading technology allows cultivated muscle cells to actively store fat, eliminating the need to grow muscle and fat cells in separate bioreactors. This technique is projected to significantly reduce capital expenditures, the company says, and will create products with higher fat profiles and better taste, texture and mouthfeel attributes.

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What is GM in this context?

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didn’t we all decide it was silly to fixate on GMOs? Like, basically everything we eat is GM, and it’s for sure the only reason the carrying capacity of the world has increased with population.

It’s also just such a pseudo-science take. Some GMOs may not be good but there’s no science to support that, whereas there’s plenty of evidence that there’s nothing wrong with them.

At the end of the day, it’s used as shorthand to fear-monger to people who don’t know what it means. It’s like saying a food is bad bc of “all the chemicals.”

They're making a pitch to investors that this will be a profitable operation.

I think we already have the technology to grow fish in giant tanks.

I'm going back someday, come what may, to BlueNalu!

One is going to need a lot less input and will be less stressful on supply chain and more financially viable. I'll let you come to your own conclusion with this information.

ask yourself if this new technology is better than the one youre talking about

An open air tilapia pond run by farmers in Vietnam will beat a climate controlled lab on all those points every time.

Its obviously not better. Its just a buzzword scam. They claim to be growing bluefin tuna toro, but they can't even get the color right.

you think its a buzzword scam because you dont understand the buzzwords.

> by utilizing breakthrough single-cell suspension and lipid-loading techniques, the startup says it can achieve 75% gross margins in its first year of production, and cultivate up to 6M pounds of premium seafood annually, beginning with Bluefin Tuna Toro.

this alt seafood tech is better than current alt seafood tech

> An open air tilapia pond run by farmers in Vietnam

requires much more space and produces less fish based the amount on the amount of space needs. in the long run, indoor farms will be much better on many areas

Space? Who cares about space? Fish farms are on coasts and rural areas where this is not shortage of space.

>this alt seafood tech is better than current alt seafood tech

That's damning with faint praise.

those fish farms can't exist inland unlike the indoor fish farms. there is a shortage of viable space in the US due to cost/regulation

Now you are literally just making shit up. There are fish farms anywhere there is water. There are fish farms in Colorado.

That spends more energy to produce less, slower.

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/raq.12337

With additional information on the environmental and antibiotic issues as well, all of which will be solved with this new technology.

Is there another GMO acronym that I'm unaware of, or are they seriously bragging about not using GMO crops to grow meat in a lab.