Imagine if you could put a pause button on a baby insect's life. This technology freezes Black Soldier Fly eggs and larvae so they stay dormant without dying. When the farmer is ready, they simply wake them up to start growing protein. It turns a fragile biological process into a shippable product, much like how seeds are sold for traditional crops.
Insect protein factories currently face high costs and instability due to in-house breeding, which often leads to colony collapses and inconsistent daily output.
A method for cryopreservation of BSF eggs and suspended animation of neonates, including a production facility for commercialization.
If you are a factory dealing with colony collapses and unstable daily output — this project developed a way to pause the life cycle of Black Soldier Flies that ensures a steady, predictable supply of larvae.
If you are a distributor dealing with the short shelf-life of live insects — this project developed ready-to-use suspended neonates with extended shelf-life that can be shipped worldwide.
If you are a sole farmer dealing with the complexity of managing breeding and rearing in one place — this project developed a solution to decouple breeding from rearing, making farming simpler and more accessible.
Based on available project data, it reduces costs by removing the need for factories to manage the complex and costly in-house breeding process.
Yes, the project specifically focuses on pausing the life cycle of Black Soldier Flies at the egg and neonate stages on an industrial scale.
The project utilizes a patent-pending technology that allows insects to function normally after exiting the preservation state.
It decouples the breeding process from the rearing and processing steps, allowing for the creation of a shippable 'seed' product.
The project period ran from 2022-10-01 to 2024-09-30, with the goal of reaching TRL 9 and building a production facility.
The project is led by a single SME, FreezeM Cryogenics Ltd, based in Israel. With a 100% industry ratio and no university or research partners in the consortium, the project is purely commercially driven, focusing on the transition from a Weizmann Institute spin-off to a market-ready production facility.
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