Partners in helping accelerate cellular agriculture

Cellular agriculture has the potential to fundamentally transform our food supply. While great progress has already been made in the cultivated meat space, significant advances are expected to continue in the coming years. As the world leader in serving science, Thermo Fisher Scientific is uniquely positioned to support our customers from research and development to industrial-scale manufacturing and every step in between through:

  • Comprehensive portfolio—reagents, instrumentation, and analytical tools for every workflow step
  • Innovative product offerings—unique products with enhanced performance
  • Trusted partnerships—support scalability, supply chain optimization, and quality
  • Custom solutions—committed to supporting via custom solutions if catalog products do not meet our customers’ specific needs

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Cellular agriculture workflow: solutions for the research of cultivated (clean) meat

Explore solutions for cellular agriculture through each step of your workflow. These products and services will support your progress toward downstream processing. Select the workflow step to view relevant reagents, instrumentation, and analytical tools.


Isolation & expansion of cells for cultivated meat research

cow icon Cellular agriculture and cultivated meat begin with the careful isolation and expansion of animal cells. Thermo Fisher Scientific has the media, supplements, and tools to help turn a single cell into millions of identical copies.
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12100061 DMEM, powder, high glucose, 10 L Each
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11835030 RPMI 1640 Medium, no phenol red, 500 mL Each
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12309050 OptiPRO™ SFM, 100 mL Each
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A1516401 Essential 6™ Medium Each
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A4965001 StemScale™ PSC Suspension Medium Each
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156499 T75 EasYFlask, TC Surface, Filter Cap, Pack of 5 Case of 100
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AF-100-15-1MG Human EGF, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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PHG0360 Human Heat Stable bFGF Recombinant Protein 500 µg
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AF-100-11-1MG Human IGF-I, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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AF-100-14B-1MG Human PDGF-BB, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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AF-300-05-1MG Human LIF, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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AF-120-14E-500UG Human/Mouse/Rat Activin A, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 500 µg
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AF-100-11R3-1MG Human IGF-I LR3, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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300-05-1MG Human LIF Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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120-14E-500UG Human/Mouse/Rat Activin A Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 500 µg
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A31804 Vitronectin (VTN-N) Recombinant Human Protein, Truncated, 10 mL = 5 mg Each
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Enhance your cell culture performance with Gibco Peptones

Explore Gibco Peptones, an extensive portfolio of nutritionally diverse animal origin (AO) and animal origin-free (AOF) peptones to supplement a variety of cell culture media.  

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10104D Dynabeads™ His-Tag Isolation and Pulldown, 10 mL Each
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Modification in cultivated meat research

mRNA icon Although nature can provide a great start, sometimes modification may help improve your process. Thermo Fisher Scientific has many tools, kits, and reagents to enable high-efficiency transfection and modification of your critical cells for cultivated meat applications.

Gibson Assembly Cloning Kits

Gibson Assembly Cloning is an elegant and robust seamless or scarless cloning methodology that has been widely adopted by the scientific community and enables the assembly of multiple DNA fragments of varying length into any vector in a highly efficient, seamless method.

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GeneArt DNA Fragments and custom clones

Cutting-edge Invitrogen GeneArt services are here to help meet your gene synthesis needs for increased protein expression via sequence-optimized synthetic genes or custom DNA libraries for rational protein engineering.  

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11750150 SuperScript™ IV CellsDirect™ cDNA Synthesis Kit, 50 reactions Each
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A46012 PowerTrack™ SYBR Green Master Mix for qPCR, 1 mL Each
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14966001 Platinum™ II Taq Hot-Start DNA Polymerase, 100 reactions Each
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G9301 E-Gel™ Power Snap Plus Electrophoresis System, 1 System Each
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G401001 E-Gel™ EX Agarose Gels, 1%, 10 Gels/Pk. Each
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L3000015 Lipofectamine™ 3000 Transfection Reagent, 1.5 mL Each
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LMRNA015 Lipofectamine™ MessengerMAX™ Transfection Reagent, 1.5 mL Each
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Genome editing solutions

We offer a variety of genome editing solutions to meet your needs. Whether you want results fast, seek full control over every design step, or need help engineering cells to your specific requirements, we have solutions that fit.

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Differentiation of cells for the research of cultivated meat

Differentiation Once your cells have reached a critical mass, it is time to drive them to their terminal state. Gibco media, proteins, and extracellular matrices can help your cells reach their
potential.
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12100061 DMEM, powder, high glucose, 10 L Each
36.65

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11320033 DMEM/F-12, 500 mL Each
53.75
11415064 Leibovitz's L-15 Medium, 500 mL Each
50.65

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54.75
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11835030 RPMI 1640 Medium, no phenol red, 500 mL Each
38.65

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41.75
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21720024 Schneider's Drosophila Medium, 500 mL Each
94.65

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101.00
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A2910001 ExpiCHO™ Expression Medium, 1000 mL Each
502.65

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540.00
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12338018 FreeStyle™ 293 Expression Medium, 1 L Each
167.65

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181.00
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12309050 OptiPRO™ SFM, 100 mL Each
38.95
A1516401 Essential 6™ Medium Each
286.00
A1517001 Essential 8™ Medium Each
339.00
A4965001 StemScale™ PSC Suspension Medium Each
992.00
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170366N 5mL Serological Pipettes, Plastic Peel, Individually Wrapped, Pack of 100 Case of 200
58.65

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63.50
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339651 15 mL Conical Centrifuge Tube, Racked, Pack of 25 Case of 500
369.65

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406.00
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362695NS Nunc™ EZFlip™ Conical Centrifuge Tubes Case of 500
379.65

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400.00
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332260 Nunc™ 50 mL Bioreactor Tube Case of 90
128.65

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140.00
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156499 T75 EasYFlask, TC Surface, Filter Cap, Pack of 5 Case of 100
491.65

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560.00
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AF-100-15-1MG Human EGF, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
301.00
PHG0360 Human Heat Stable bFGF Recombinant Protein 500 µg
858.60

Special offer

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Ends: 16-Jun-2025

954.00
Save 95.40 (10%)
AF-100-11-1MG Human IGF-I, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
331.00
100-21-1MG Human TGF-beta 1 Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
5,712.65

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6,250.00
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100-39H-25UG Human HGF Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 25 µg
211.50

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Ends: 16-Jun-2025

235.00
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AF-100-14B-1MG Human PDGF-BB, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
5,180.00
AF-120-14E-500UG Human/Mouse/Rat Activin A, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 500 µg
3,105.00
AF-100-11R3-1MG Human IGF-I LR3, Animal-Free Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
261.00
100-14B-1MG Human PDGF-BB Recombinant Protein, PeproTech® 1 mg
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Harvest cells used in cultivated meat research

Harvest cells Harvesting cells is a delicate process that requires great care to ensure minimal cells are lost in the process. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a selection of dissociation reagents, surfactants,
and buffers to support your sensitive cells.
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0010057AE Anti-Clumping Agent, 20 mL Each
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24040032 Poloxamer 188 Non-ionic Surfactant (10%) Each
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Analyze cells for use in cultivated meat research

Analyze cells Thermo Fisher Scientific offers a wide array of analytical tools and reagents to help understand and solve the complex biological questions underlying cultivated meat development.
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Bioprocessing solutions for the food biotech industry

We understand that your business requires the highest quality standards and that speed to market is critical in the success of your business. Thus, we offer a partnership approach to solving your business challenges and provide expertise to assist you during all phases of development, as well as optimized manufacturing processes.

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Selection Tools to help find the right product for your cellular agriculture research

iMatch Sera Lot Matching Tool

This unique tool helps you to find the best match. Provide your previous Gibco FBS lot number or answer a few quick questions to find your ideal match.

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Media Formulation Tool

Find the right Gibco media formulation with this interactive tool. Compare basal media side-by-side for DMEM, DMEM/F-12, MEM and RPMI-1640.

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TransfectionSelect

Try the TransfectionSelect product selection tool to get recommendations for the right Invitrogen or Gibco solutions for high-efficiency transfection.

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Antibody Selection Tool

Choose quality antibodies with confidence. Search primary, secondary and ELISA Kits by application and target species.
 

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Recombinant Protein Selection Tool

Search Recombinant proteins from trusted brands. Filter by protein name, species, expression system, application, and product grade.

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TrueDesign Genome Editor

Easily design, select, and order reagents for accurate and successful gene editing experiments.
 

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Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about cultivated meat research

What is cellular agriculture?

Cellular agriculture is the process by which a cell or a tissue derived from a living animal is used to culture products that mimic the physical texture and the nutritional profile of conventional animal products. Some examples of how this technology has been applied include the production of meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, and leather.

What is cultured meat?

Cultured meat is the production of meat made by culturing animal cells in a bioreactor. It will one day allow for the consumption of meat without the need for animal slaughter.

How is cultured meat made?

Cultured meat is made by taking a small biopsy of cells from livestock. These cells are isolated and cultured in laboratory conditions to produce a biomass of muscle and/or fat cells that can be mixed with filler produce a genuine meat product for consumption.

What is the difference between cultivated meat, cultured meat and clean meat?

There are many names for the latest sustainable food alternative. Clean meat. Cell-based meat. Cultivated meat. Cultured meat. Lab-grown meat. These terms are synonymous and reference a form of cellular agriculture where meat is produced through the culturing of animal cells.

Resources

Cell Culture & Transfection Learning Center
Access cell culture and transfection educational resources for better experiment planning and execution.

Gibco Cell Culture Basics
Learn the fundamentals of cell culture for achieving consistent results, including laboratory setup, safety, and aseptic techniques.

Media Formulation Tool
Find the right Gibco media formulation for DMEM, DMEM/F-12, MEM, and RPMI-1640 media.

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