What cultivated meat's inputs cost — recorded daily, never revised.
Growth media, cell lines, scaffolds and reagents, observed from vendor list prices and written to a permanent archive since 28 August 2026 — joined to published research. Ask a question, or browse every series.
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Assay Markets records the published list price of each production input, one observation per variant per day, and never revises it. Each pack size is its own series, so a change always means that exact product moved.
how the numbers are made →Price terminal
Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose · 500 mL
Normalised: $91.68 per litre (method v1)
View observation log →Market structure
| Class | Basis | Vendors | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMEM | /L (normalised) | 4 | $12.13–$91.68 |
| DMEM/F-12 | /L (normalised) | 3 | $14.83–$94.38 |
| DPBS / PBS | /L (normalised) | 4 | $24.27–$151.01 |
| FBS | /L (normalised) | 3 | $652.58–$6,741.50 |
| FGF-2 / bFGF | /mg (normalised) | 6 | $110.02–$14,426.81 |
Observed list prices only, within one class. Count and range — nothing modelled. Prices shown in USD at the ECB reference rate; the archive records the vendor's currency.
Tracked inputs
View all 628 series →| Input | Reference | Normalised | Change vs 28 Aug | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibco™ DMEM, high glucose · 500 mL Growth Media · Gibco | $45.84 per 500 mL | $91.68 /L | 0.00% | |
| HiMedia Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM), High glucose · 500 mL Growth Media · HiMedia | $18.88 per 500 mL | $37.75 /L | 0.00% | |
| Corning® DMEM High Glucose · 500 mL Growth Media · Corning | $24.27 per 500 mL | $48.54 /L | 0.00% | |
| Gibco™ FBS, Qualified, Heat Inactivated · 50 mL Growth Media · Gibco | $337.08 per 50 mL | $6,741.50 /L | 0.00% | |
| Capricorn Scientific Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) Growth Media · Capricorn Scientific | $424.71 | Not normalisable | 0.00% | |
| Novel Farms Chemically Defined, Serum-Free Suspension Medium for Chicken Cells · 100 mL Growth Media · Novel Farms | $300.67 per 100 mL | $3,006.71 /L | +0.90% | |
| Gibco™ TrypLE™ Express Enzyme (1X) - No Phenol Red · 500 mL Reagents · Gibco | $113.26 per 500 mL | $226.51 /L | 0.00% | |
| Gibco™ Trypsin-EDTA (0.25%), with phenol red · 500 mL Reagents · Gibco | $78.20 per 500 mL | $156.40 /L | 0.00% | |
| Qkine Recombinant Bovine/Porcine FGF-2 (154 Aa) Protein · 100 µg Reagents · Qkine | $235.95 per 100 µg | $2,359.53 /mg | 0.00% | |
| Lucius Labs 1x DPBS · 1000 mL Reagents · Lucius Labs | $25.62 per 1000 mL | $25.62 /L | +5.56% | |
| Merck Millipore ECMatrix™-511 E8 Laminin Substrate Scaffolds · Merck Millipore | $566.29 | Not normalisable | 0.00% | |
| MyoWorks MyoZein Microcarriers Scaffolds · MyoWorks | $144.27 | Not normalisable | +0.94% | |
| Smart MCs Methacryloyl Gelatin (GelMA) · GelMA-60 (Medium) / 10 g Scaffolds · Smart MCs | $1,507.40 per 10 g | Not normalisable | +0.36% | |
| Opo Bio Bovine Angus Satellite Cells Cell Lines · Opo Bio | $900.66 | Not normalisable | +0.30% | |
| Quest Bovine Primary Cell Lines - Aberdeen Angus Cross Myosatellite · Industry Cell Lines · Quest | $2,696.60 | Not normalisable | 0.00% |
Prices shown in USD at the ECB reference rate of 2 Sept 2026; the archive records the vendor's currency.
A curated selection of reference inputs. Every variant is recorded as its own series — see the full catalogue.
Research records ·
Published research on tracked inputs, indexed by Cellag. Showing the 8 most recently added; each opens the full record.
54 records synced from Cellag. Retracted or removed records are excluded.