singularityu japan, global impact challenge 2017 finalist presentation : shojinmeat project

’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”

Bio/Intro 4

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”

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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DeforestationFire-fallow cultivation Water shortage

“Meat”←animals←feed, water, land

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Food Security (食糧安全保障) 9

Muscle cells Bioreactor (Tank)

Culture medium

Processing

Cultured Meat 10

+Solution to 10000 year long ethical dilemma?

11Resources saved to 1/10~1/100

Reason for being in Sci Fi

$260,000

The Cost Bottleneck…. for now. 13

$400(And further down…to $11 & lower

2013 ～2016

Aired on Japanese national TV (NHK), 2016/11/29

What if cell culture is scaled up? 14

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

Affordable DIY cultured meat method 15

Use of common food and drink to make DIY culture media

Experiments at home and biohack spaces

Affordable DIY cultured meat hardware 16

Modified “Easy cell culture kit” at $500

Cell culture system that makes use of DIY culture media

PCT/JP2016/067599特願2016-568716

Affordable DIY cultured meat sharing 17

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

Into open-source cultured meat 18

I made tastier meat!!!(｀・ω・´)

I’ve modded the hardware to culture kidney.

I used it to grow heart cells :-)

Method

Hardware

Sharing

UniversitiesSME/Startups

Individuals

What went wrong with GMO?

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

Make meat at home

Make meat on Mars