How to Use bioreactor in a Sentence
bioreactor
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Our whole mission is AI for good, and that’s the goal of the bioreactor.
—Karen Walker, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
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The last one is bioreactors, or the big tanks that the process happens inside of.
—Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
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The cells are then grown, matured, and placed in a bioreactor, a big steel tank with knobs and valves.
—Larissa Zimberoff, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2022
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The scientists gave just the bioreactor to a group as well.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 Jan. 2022
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But the chicken in Bowman’s pan was grown in a bioreactor, not butchered from a bird.
—John Birdsall, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
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In the lab, researchers use cell cultures to grow them in what’s called a bioreactor.
—Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2021
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That’s this idea of growing meat from cells in these large bioreactors.
—Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 2 Oct. 2019
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The cells required for these therapies can be grown in bioreactors in the lab.
—Tobias Deuse, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2019
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Likewise, a pig’s heart valve, which is stitched to a bioreactor, gets a workout.
—Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
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Its steak, that is—a rich slab of meat grown from stem cells, in a bioreactor, no cows or slaughter required.
—Time, 9 Nov. 2022
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Next, Thon hopes to scale up the bioreactor to produce enough platelets for human trials.
—Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
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The chicken cells are bathed in a nutrient broth in tanks called bioreactors.
—Anna Werner, CBS News, 31 July 2023
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When the meat is ready, companies collect it from the bioreactors and move it along the processing line.
—Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 June 2023
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But the Raccoon River is imperiled, and a bioreactor here and a wetland there is just a drop in the bucket.
—National Geographic, 7 Dec. 2017
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The cells are fed amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients in a bioreactor.
—Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
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The company uses human stem cells to create bone marrow cells, which would then be put in a bioreactor.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
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They were developed inside a bioreactor, and made up entirely of stem cells cultured in a Petri dish.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
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Last month, from Singapore, came news of the world’s first commercial sale of cell-cultured meat, the product of a bioreactor instead of a slaughterhouse.
—Matthew Scully, National Review, 17 Jan. 2021
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This can also happen while the cells are multiplying in plates or bioreactors outside of the body, giving rise to neoantigens.
—Tobias Deuse, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2019
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But using closed bioreactors adds greatly to the cost of producing algae.
—Eric Jarvis, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
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All of a sudden bioreactors and other equipment have become available for cheap.
—Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
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But replicating the process from the lab to the nearby factory floor has proved tricky because scientists need to tweak the vaccine’s recipe depending on the bioreactor.
—Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
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Some of the fish-specific ingredients a bioreactor might need could be hard to come by, however.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
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The scientists saw extraordinary results in frogs equipped with the bioreactor and the drug cocktail.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 Jan. 2022
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Other options include bioreactors for algae or indeed, any kind of cell that can be grown into food.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
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For Novavax, those supplies included 2,000-liter bioreactor bags, used to culture cells; depth filters for the purification process; and the growth media, which is used to feed the cells.
—Sarah Jane Tribble, Quartz, 20 July 2021
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In a mini-bioreactor that simulates C. diff infection in the bowels, the RT078 elbowed out the mutant when trehalose was present at low doses.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2018
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The concept would involve sending bacterial and fungal spores and a bioreactor to Mars.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
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Johnson & Johnson had said last year that Emergent would be making vaccine in single-use, 1,000-liter bioreactor bags.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2021
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In an industry where most companies are using bioreactors that hold just hundreds or thousands of liters, the size of the project was unprecedented.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
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