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’Open-Source Cultured Meat’
Cellular Agriculture Initiative
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Yuki Hanyu
“Shojinmeat Project”
Global Impact Challenge
25.Feb.2017, Tokyo, Japan

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“Meat”

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Bio/Intro
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Interested in cultured meat
and cellular agriculture?
Then join us!
Yuki Hanyu, Ph.D
Chemistry &
Systems Engineering
Sci-fi overdose
since… 5? 8?

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“Meat”

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From where?
Meat is ~x40 more resource intensive
Lamb：~x50, Beef：~x40, Pork：~x20, Poultry：~x7
“Meat”←animals←feed, water, land
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Deforestation
Fire-fallow
cultivation Water shortage
“Meat”←animals←feed, water, land
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Food Security (食糧安全保障)
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Muscle cells Bioreactor (Tank)
Culture
medium
Processing
Cultured Meat
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+Solution to 10000 year
long ethical dilemma?
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Resources saved to 1/10~1/100

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Reason for being in Sci Fi

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$260,000
The Cost Bottleneck…. for now.
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$400
(And further down…to $11 & lower
2013
～
2016
Aired on Japanese national TV (NHK), 2016/11/29

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What if cell culture is scaled up?
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Medicine / stem cell therapy
(再生医療)
Bio-manufacturing (バイオ製造業)
Cultured meat / Cellular agriculture
（細胞農業）
Something more that
I am not aware of
Low cost large
scale cell culture

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Affordable DIY cultured meat method
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Use of common food and drink
to make DIY culture media
Experiments at home and
biohack spaces

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Affordable DIY cultured meat hardware
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Modified “Easy cell culture kit” at
$500
Cell culture system that makes
use of DIY culture media
PCT/JP2016/067599
特願2016-568716

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Affordable DIY cultured meat sharing
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Information on methods & hardware
available on video sharing sites and
fanzine(同人誌) at Comiket (コミケ)

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Into open-source cultured meat
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I made tastier
meat!!!(｀・ω・´)
I’ve modded the
hardware to
culture kidney.
I used it to
grow heart
cells :-)
Method
Hardware
Sharing
Universities
SME/Startups
Individuals

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What went wrong with GMO?

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Everyone, jump in!! Our core methods
are ALREADY open

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Make meat at home

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Make meat on Mars