Tag Archives: AI

A Tonne of Duck in One Run: What Parima and Vow Actually Proved

By | July 18, 2026

The headlines led with a 22,000-litre tank and a 99% cost drop. Here is a bioreactor engineer’s read on what Parima and Vow actually proved, why the media breakthrough matters more than the vessel, and the quiet shift that turned cultivated meat into a fermentation problem.

From Bioreactors to Brier Scores: Building Model90, a Football Prediction Engine

By | July 5, 2026

What happens when a bioreactor engineer points his state-estimation toolkit at football. Model90 is a statistical forecasting engine for the 2026 World Cup and the major leagues, built on Dixon-Coles Poisson, Elo, xG and a calibrated meta-model. An honest look at how it works and what its Brier score really means.

From Lab Bench to Browser: A Hybrid Digital Twin for CHO Cell Culture

By | May 30, 2026

I rebuilt two published CHO cell-culture papers — a hybrid ODE + machine-learning growth model, and a genome-scale metabolic reduction pipeline — as an interactive digital twin that runs in the browser. Here’s how it works, what’s under the hood, and an honest take on what it’s good for. No hosted version yet; the code is on GitHub and a live instance is coming soon.

Running a 5-Litre Lysine Fermentation From Scratch. Everything Nobody Tells You

By | February 19, 2026

If you’ve ever read a paper on lysine production with Corynebacterium glutamicum and thought “right, but what do I actually do on Monday morning when I’m standing in front of the bioreactor” — this post is for you. I’m going to walk through the entire process of setting up and running a 5L bench-scale fed-batch… Read More: Running a 5-Litre Lysine Fermentation From Scratch. Everything Nobody Tells… »

Case Study: Predicting Trastuzumab Developability

By | January 25, 2026

Why Trastuzumab Is the Perfect Test Case When I built my antibody developability predictor, I knew I needed to validate it against a molecule where we actually know the manufacturing story. Trastuzumab (Herceptin) was the obvious choice. It’s one of the most successful therapeutic antibodies ever made, with decades of manufacturing data behind it. More… Read More: Case Study: Predicting Trastuzumab Developability »

From Conventional Design to AI-Driven Innovation: A Strategic Journey in Advanced Manufacturing

By | January 24, 2026

The Inflection Point Three-four years ago, I stood in front of production equipment I’d designed using textbook equations and decades-old heuristics. The systems worked—they always had—but I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were leaving performance on the table. That nagging intuition led me down a rabbit hole of machine learning papers, Python tutorials, and… Read More: From Conventional Design to AI-Driven Innovation: A Strategic Journey in… »