Cell cultured meats
Cell cultured meat is a product of cellular agriculture that uses biopsied animal cells to grow sustainable, humane meat as an alternative to the traditional farming industry. Because cell cultured meat is made with mammalian cells, many of the processes in developing and scaling a cell cultured meat product will mirror those in biologics production, specifically cell line development. Molecular Devices has a history of success in scaling biologics for regulatory approval and commercialization with life science groups the world over and can, therefore, leverage that expertise with food manufacturers growing mammalian cell lines in new industry.
Cell cultured meat is currently under regulatory review in the United States by the FDA and USDA and commercially available in Singapore. Processes like automated single-cell isolation and high-content cellular imaging help food scientists’ accurate discovery of new mammalian cell lines and ensure the final product has the morphology, structure, and taste they are targeting.

Scale cell cultured meat production with monoclonal cell lines
Mammalian cells are usually genetically modified to produce different biologics, including growth factors, hormones and antibodies. Cell line development workflows consist in a multistep process involving single cell cloning, formation of discrete colonies and isolation of these discrete colonies. A further step of monoclonality verification is often crucial from a quality and regulatory perspective, to ensure that the cell line originates from a single progenitor and is therefore monoclonal. Assessment of clone productivity and stability should be additionally performed, usually resulting in a time- and resource-intensive process due to the manual labour requirements.

Learn more about our research methods
Here, we highlight various applications and research methods using our CloneSelect Imager and Single-Cell Printer, ImageXpress Cellular Imaging System, and SpectraMax® microplate reader to help scale your cell line development workflow.
Resources for Cell Cultured Meats
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CloneSelect Imager FL fluorescence for rapid day zero monoclonality
CloneSelect Imager FL fluorescence for rapid day zero monoclonality
Gene editing allows DNA manipulation, i.e., addition, deletion, or modification using different tools. Several nucleases for genome editing are now available: zinc finger nucleases (ZFN),…
Application Note
Accelerating Gene Edited Cell Lines with the CloneSelect Imager FL
Accelerating Gene Edited Cell Lines with the CloneSelect Imager FL
Gene editing technology allows the manipulations at the DNA level where it is deleted, added, or modified using various tools.
Application Note
A microfluidics-based, single cell printing and microplate imaging workflow optimized for efficiency, viability and monoclonality report generation
A microfluidics-based, single cell printing and microplate imaging workflow optimized for efficiency, viability and monoclonality report generation
In this app note, we demonstrate a unified workflow that combines single cell deposition and clonality verification. We couple the use of the SCP and CSI to deposit single cells into a…
Application Note
Improved productivity of cell line development using fully integrated automated solutions: a series of case studies with the CloneSelect Imager
Improved productivity of cell line development using fully integrated automated solutions: a series of case studies with the CloneSelect Imager
Cell line development requires screening tens of thousands of clones in order to find the few clones that are stable, grow well, and produce high yields of bioproduct. In addition to…