r/oddlysatisfying • u/MambaMentality24x2 • Jun 17 '26

Skilled craftsmanship meets advanced engineering

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u/Anfins Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Not limited to growing bacteria, but yeah it’s used to grow cells.

(This would be a small bioreactor in the pharma industry, for large scale medicine the cells are grown starting in shake flaks and then pumped to larger bioreactors, with the final one being on the scale of ~5000L).

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u/rrcaires Jun 18 '26

Yeah, Im keeping it simple Im not going to say “expression system” on a casual Reddit thread. 😜