The Rippled Vortex Ring: Generative Art, and the Infinite Loop That Wasn’t

By | August 1, 2026

I spend most of my working life thinking about what happens inside a stirred tank. Impeller tip speed, shear on the cells, the shape of the vortex that forms when you get the baffling wrong. So when I fell down the rabbit hole of p5.js code golf last week, it was probably inevitable that the… Read More: The Rippled Vortex Ring: Generative Art, and the Infinite Loop… »

Sharing the Steel: What The Every Company and ADM Are Quietly Teaching Us About Scale-Up

By | July 29, 2026

The Every Company’s decision to manufacture its recombinant egg white protein OvoPro at ADM’s Clinton, Iowa facility, alongside existing capacity at Huvepharma’s Bulgarian subsidiary Biovet, illustrates a shift in how precision fermentation companies approach commercial scale-up. Rather than building proprietary plants, co-manufacturing allows capital to remain available for strain engineering and product development. The approach… Read More: Sharing the Steel: What The Every Company and ADM Are… »

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… »

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.