Services

Process development

Upstream process development and optimization

Accelerate timelines, optimize performance, and reduce risks in bringing biotherapeutics to market with our upstream process development services and advanced bioreactor technology. By focusing on cell culture media optimization and development, we can help ensure your experiments deliver efficient and reproducible outcomes.

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Cell culture media optimization and development

Cell culture media optimization and development is critical to achieving efficient and reproducible outcomes in upstream bioprocessing. Our cutting-edge technology and deep expertise is combined to help you maximize productivity and ensure consistent performance at scale.

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Customized media optimization

We work with you to design, test, and refine media formulations tailored to your cell lines and production goals. Using our cloud-connected bioreactors, we can evaluate nutrient profiles to enhance growth and protect yields, test feed strategies to maintain cell health in high-density cultures, and identify and optimize critical media components to improve performance.

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Accelerated media development

Using our DOE methodology, we accelerate the development process by testing multiple variables simultaneously. This approach provides data-driven insights to help shorten development timelines, reduce variability across experiments, and scale formulations from lab to production environments.

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Real-time monitoring

Cloud-connected bioreactors enable real-time monitoring of cell culture experiments for hastened optimization of critical process parameters. The power and outcome analysis ensure media is optimized for consistent and high-performing results. 

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Support across various systems

Finally, we support cell culture media optimization and development across various systems, including CHO Cells, HEK Cells, and Yeast and Microbial Systems. 

Capabilities

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Cloud-connected bioreactors

Real-time monitoring, data collection, and precise control improve experimental outcomes and scalability.

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High-throughput experimentation

Simultaneously test multiple variables to refine processes faster and more efficiently.

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Analysis and insights

Advanced monitoring tools for power and experimental outcome analysis enable assessment of critical process parameters - such as growth rates, metabolite profiles, and protein yields - to promote data-driven decision-making.

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Cell culture optimization and development

Tailored support for formulating, testing, and scaling cell culture media to maximize productivity and reproducibility.

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Design of experiments (DOE)

Our fleet of bioreactors is configurable to run multi-factor DOEs of nearly any size, applying systematic and data-driven experimental design to optimize bioprocess parameters efficiently and reduce variability across experiments.

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Expert collaboration

Access a team of experienced bioprocess scientists to design, execute, and refine experiments for optimal outcomes.

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Our facility

Our laboratories based in San Francisco are equipped with segregated modality suites, state-of-the-art bioreactors and analytical instrumentation, all operated by an experienced bioprocess development team.

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250mL and 5L bioreactors

20,000+

Bioreactor runs to date

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Customers have used Culture's services to date

High quality & safety standards

Analytical capabilities

Microbial bioprocess
- Biomass quantification
- Metabolite analysis
Mammalian bioprocess
- Viability and cell counts

- Metabolite analysis
- Host cell protein
Protein
- Titer quantification
- Monomer/aggregation quantification
Viral vector
- Capsid titer
- Viral genome titer
- Empty/full ratio

Segregated modality suites

Mammalian
CHO and HEK
Viral vector (AAV)
AAV generated by HEK transfection
Microbial
Yeast, bacteria, and fungi
Media
Media recipes to customer specifications

Rigorous standards

Quality management systems (QMS)
Quality review of all runs and CAPA for major deviations
Safety & security
BSL-2 and SOC2 compliant

Our bioreactors

At Culture, we custom-build our modular reactors with cloud-connected controllers, making bioprocess scale-out, design, monitoring, and analysis as easy as possible.

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Bioreactor for process development and material generation

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Modular single-use bioreactors designed to be easily scaled up or down

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