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Biosphere zaps germs with UV light to make biomanufacturing cheaper
Using LEDs has the potential to bring down the cost of biomanufacturing, allowing such processes to make materials that previously would have been too expensive.
Now imagine scaling that risk up to biomanufacturing, which uses living cells to make a range of stuff, including drugs, food ingredients, and industrial materials. But it’s a costly tactic: steam takes a lot of energy to produce, and the equipment has to be hardened against the high temperatures and pressures that occur during sterilization. “You can imagine this like an electrification of the bioreactor,” he said, adding that replacing expensive stainless steel valves, traps, and other equipment with LEDs and a cable should help drive costs down significantly.
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