How to Use bioreactor in a Sentence

bioreactor

noun
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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
  • The last one is bioreactors, or the big tanks that the process happens inside of.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 9 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • The scientists gave just the bioreactor to a group as well.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 Jan. 2022
  • But the chicken in Bowman’s pan was grown in a bioreactor, not butchered from a bird.
    — John Birdsall, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
  • In the lab, researchers use cell cultures to grow them in what’s called a bioreactor.
    — Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2021
  • That’s this idea of growing meat from cells in these large bioreactors.
    — Andrea Michelson, Smithsonian, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The cells required for these therapies can be grown in bioreactors in the lab.
    — Tobias Deuse, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Likewise, a pig’s heart valve, which is stitched to a bioreactor, gets a workout.
    — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2015
  • 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
  • Next, Thon hopes to scale up the bioreactor to produce enough platelets for human trials.
    — Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2014
  • The chicken cells are bathed in a nutrient broth in tanks called bioreactors.
    — Anna Werner, CBS News, 31 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The cells are fed amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients in a bioreactor.
    — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • They were developed inside a bioreactor, and made up entirely of stem cells cultured in a Petri dish.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But using closed bioreactors adds greatly to the cost of producing algae.
    — Eric Jarvis, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
  • All of a sudden bioreactors and other equipment have become available for cheap.
    — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Some of the fish-specific ingredients a bioreactor might need could be hard to come by, however.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The scientists saw extraordinary results in frogs equipped with the bioreactor and the drug cocktail.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 31 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The concept would involve sending bacterial and fungal spores and a bioreactor to Mars.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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