Agrenvec

DERMOCOSMETICS: Plants are natural bio-factories that produce the more sophisticated active ingredients. Thanks to biotechnology, they are able to produce naturally occurring skin proteins too. These bio-engineered, plant-produced proteins are particularly well suited for cosmetic applications, as they are identical to the ones our skin produces in its natural renewal process. This high-tech, innovative active ingredients are specially designed and produced for a new generation of premium cosmetics, backed by extensive knowledge of molecular biology, biotechnology and plant proteomics.

FOODTECH: Cultivated meat aims to become an alternative to the traditional meat production process, cultivating animal cells in bioreactors instead of growing, farming and slaughtering animals. It also eliminates the need for antibiotics, commonly used in animal farming, with major consequences for human health due to antibiotic-resistant infections. 

A significant bottleneck to the scale-up of animal cell culture is the cost of culture media, due mainly to the essential need of growth factors, and cost reduction is mandatory to provide a product similar in terms of price to conventional farm origin meat. Advantages of using plant-made animal growth factors may be a key point to make scaled production of cultivated meat economically viable and to reach price competitiveness.

Agrenvec’s extensive experience in routinely producing endotoxin free, recombinant proteins in plants, permits offering tailor made solutions for innovators in cultivated meat. Optimized beef, chicken, pork or fish growth factors can be produced under demand.