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ArticleNature communications2025

Accelerating cell culture media development using Bayesian optimization-based iterative experimental design.

Harini Narayanan, Joshua A Hinckley, Rachel Barry, Brendan Dang, Lenna A Wolffe, Adel Atari, Yuen-Yi Tseng, J Christopher Love

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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  10. A Guide to Bayesian Optimization in Bioprocess Engineering.Biotechnology and bioengineering · 2026
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  12. Pichia-CLM: A language model-based codon optimization pipeline forProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  14. Development of Cell Culture Media for Cultivated Meat Production.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2026
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8 authors.

Harini NarayananKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4545-4885
Joshua A HinckleyKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Rachel BarryKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Brendan DangBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Lenna A WolffeBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-2492-6371
Adel AtariBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Yuen-Yi TsengBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
J Christopher LoveKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, 500 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. clove@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0921-3144

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optimizing operational conditions for complex biological systems used in life sciences research and biotechnology is an arduous task. Here, we apply a Bayesian Optimization-based iterative framework for experimental design to accelerate cell culture media development for two applications. First, we show that this approach yields new compositions of media with cytokine supplementation to maintain the viability and distribution of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells in the culture. Second, we apply this framework to optimize the production of three recombinant proteins in cultivations of K.phaffii. We identified conditions with improved outcomes for both applications compared to the initial standard media using 3-30 times fewer experiments than that estimated for other methods such as the standard Design of Experiments. Subsequently, we also demonstrated the extensibility of our approach to efficiently account for additional design factors through transfer learning. These examples demonstrate how coupling data collection, modeling, and optimization in this iterative paradigm, while using an exploration-exploitation trade-off in each iteration, can reduce the time and resources for complex optimization tasks such as the one demonstrated here.

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Cell Culture TechniquesCulture MediaResearch DesignBayes TheoremCell SurvivalHumansLeukocytes, MononuclearRecombinant ProteinsCulture MediaRecombinant Proteins

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PMID40593792
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