Services

The Problem

Traditional media development takes 2-4 years and costs millions of dollars per formulation, putting businesses at risk of missing critical milestones. Suboptimal media increases manufacturing costs, delays regulatory approval, and prevents essential products in medicine, food, and materials from achieving their full market potential.

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Our Solution

Our MediOP™ platform sits at the intersection of AI, high-throughput robotic automation, and cell biology. This combination allows us to design custom media tailored to your cells. With this unique capability we deliver cell-specific formulations optimized for performance, cost, and quality; transforming years of guesswork into weeks of custom design.

MediOPTM Services

Our media specialists partner with you from initial consultation up to final media validation. Choose from our four service options, each can be tailored to fit your specific development stage and goals:

Catalog

• For people who need media today
• We supply ready-made formulations for select cell types
• Turnaround: Immediately available
• Deliverables: Off-the-shelf animal component-free media
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Express

• For people who need better media quickly
• We use rapid screening to predict formulations for select cell types
• Turnaround: 1-3 months
• Deliverables: 1-3 candidate formulations for immediate testing

Boost

• For people who want the most from their existing media
• We use MediOP™ to identify additives to enhance baseline formulations
• Turnaround: 3-6 months
• Deliverables: 3-5 optimized candidate formulations

De Novo

• For people who don't have any suitable media
• We use MediOP™ to design custom media formulations from scratch
• Turnaround: 6-9 months
• Deliverables: 5-10 validated candidate formulations

MediOP™ can work with black box media and ingredients

MediOP™ Advantages

Cell-Specific

Formulations tailored to your cell’s needs and optimized across multiple objectives like growth, quality, and cost.

Faster & Cheaper

Robotic lab automation and AI-enabled formulation design delivers optimized media in weeks instead of years, at a fraction of traditional development costs

Modular

Flexible service offerings designed to match your development stage, timeline, and commercial goals.

Our MediOPTM Clients

The Multus media development team are extremely efficient and knowledgable and have taken the hassle out of the complex media optimization process. We’ve seen impressive formulation results in a short period of time due to their innovative and high-throughput media development pipeline.

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Dr. Olivia Ogilvie

CEO, Opo Bio

With their innovative approach to media development and their collaborative, enthusiastic spirit, Multus has been an extremely valuable partner for us as we progress in our media development journey.

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Christopher Gilchrist

Head of Science, Jellatech

Multus’ flexibility to direct their cutting-edge methods towards bacterial and fungal cultivation and their close collaboration resulted in cost- and time-effective yield improvements and a partnership that feels like a seamless extension of our own R&D.

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James Dunce

Co-founder of BravelyCultured Ltd.

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FAQs

What do you need from me to start a project?
If I use the Express service, do I own the formulation IP?
Can you improve my media without me sharing my proprietary formulation?
Nothing on the market grows my cells well enough. Can you start from scratch?
How well does your media work?

Ready to accelerate your media development?

Our media specialists can help you determine which MediOPTM service option best fits your needs. Schedule a consultation to discuss your cells, timeline, and performance goals.

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