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3/24/24: The media optimization project described on this page has been parlayed into a startup venture, called Dragonase (see sidebar), that intends to apply cell culture media optimization to the problem of anti-aging hematopoietic stem cell therapy... I am trying to discover how to better control the growth, differentiation, and function of cultured human cells with a robotic system that autonomously formulates and tests cell culture media recipes... Essentially all laboratory-based human biological research relies on maintaining cells in culture medium that provides an appropriate chemical environment: nutrients, carbon sources, growth factors, and so on. The behaviors of cells - how long they replicate, how quickly they senesce, whether they differentiate, and what functional behaviors they exhibit - are all functions of their culture media environment. Most culture media recipes were designed at least 50 years ago (DMEM was formulated in 1959, Ham's F12 in 1965, and RPMI in..