Last Thursday, September 26, Cocoon Bioscience has inaugurated the first industrial production plant for recombinant proteins using living bioreactors in Euskadi, Spain.

Cocoon Bioscience, a biotechnology company specializing in recombinant protein production, has inaugurated the world’s first plant at the Bizkaia Technology Park. Founded in 2022, Cocoon has scaled an innovative automated platform that leverages insects in their chrysalis stage as high-efficiency, low-cost natural bioreactors, offering a more natural and scalable alternative to traditional bacterial fermentation methods using stainless steel bioreactors. This advancement is set to play a pivotal role in providing cost-effective reagents for mRNA therapies, vaccines, gene sequencing, and cultivated meat industries.