Case Study: Uncommon (cultured meat developer) achieves rapid, lower-cost media optimization with Synthace

Uncommon ushering in a new era of sustainable food production through lab-grown meat

Uncommon, a cultured-meat company aiming for a 5% share of the global pork market by 2030, needed to optimize animal‑free growth media while overcoming astronomical commercial media costs, impractical one‑factor‑at‑a‑time screening, and the need for reproducible, code‑free exploration of very large experimental design spaces. To meet these challenges they adopted Synthace’s cloud‑based experiment platform to enable large DOE studies, automated workflows, and repeatable protocols without manual coding.

With Synthace, Uncommon ran a 22‑factor fractional factorial DOE with interaction profiling in just 320 runs, previewed and automated liquid‑handling steps in silico, and eliminated roughly 20,000 manual calculations. The outcome was a step‑change in performance: an order‑of‑magnitude reduction in media costs, significantly increased cellular yields, faster formulation for new cell lines, and a time saving Alex Rimmer estimates would otherwise have taken an additional 6–9 months—results made possible by Synthace.

Uncommon

Alex Rimmer

Stem Cell Scientist III