Author Archives: Kemal

About Kemal

A bioprocess engineer, modeler, machine learning dreamer.

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.

When the Steel Outlives the Startup: Inside UPSIDE’s $50M Bid for Believer Meats

By | June 19, 2026

UPSIDE Foods has bid $50 million for Believer Meats’ North Carolina plant. The interesting question isn’t the price — it’s which parts of a dead cultivated-meat company are actually worth buying: the steel, the biology, or the process intelligence.

I Built a Single-Cell RNA-seq Pipeline That Writes Its Own Report

By | June 7, 2026

Single-cell RNA sequencing is one of those techniques that generates a huge amount of data and then demands a huge amount of effort to interpret it. You run the sequencer, get a matrix of 20,000 genes by several thousand cells, and then spend the next several days (or weeks) figuring out what’s in there. I… Read More: I Built a Single-Cell RNA-seq Pipeline That Writes Its Own… »

Cracker Blaster: a little block puzzle I built for my daughter

By | June 4, 2026

A small, cracker-themed block puzzle I cloned and polished for my four-year-old — built in plain vanilla JavaScript with synthesised audio, a Three.js bloom backdrop, and a deliberately forgiving combo system. Free to play, open source on GitHub.

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.

The Ovalbumin Patent Fight and What It Tells Us About Where Precision Fermentation Is Going

By | May 22, 2026

The Every Company and Onego Bio are now fighting over recombinant ovalbumin in courts on two continents. The way this case resolves will shape how broadly IP rights can be enforced in precision fermentation, and what that means for the rest of us building this industry.

Living with a Mechanical Mitral Valve and Warfarin: The Diet, the Biochemistry, and What Nobody Tells You Until It’s Too Late

By | May 15, 2026

What I wish someone had handed me on discharge day: the biochemistry of warfarin and vitamin K, the food atlas, the drug and herbal interactions, travel, and the daily operating procedure of life on warfarin with a mechanical mitral valve. Written engineer-to-engineer.