Article | CEO discusses opti-ox™ technology and bit.bio on BBC Click

“We are taking a slightly different angle with biology – you can look at biology a little bit like a software, which means there is a possibility to reprogram or reboot the cell with a new program. Our tech allows us to do this really efficiently. And that’s opened a new way of thinking about manufacturing and precision engineering cells.”

“We keep the cells in incubators here. As all cells grown outside the body need certain levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide and certain temperature. Once we make the desired cell type, we can freeze them in small test tubes and send them to the customer in a frozen format. The golden standard in the field is to use primary cells which are isolated from human organs, but as you can imagine, the difficulty there is that the donors are very scarce so it’s very difficult to get these primary cell types. bit.bio aims to bring a new gold standard to the field. We can create mature cell types that behave like primary human cells that you would find in the body.”