Choosing the Right Production Platform

After working with different biological production platforms for many years, I have stopped asking one question:
“Which platform is the best?”

I no longer think that is the right question. A better question is, « Which platform is best suited for this specific product, application, and manufacturing context?”
During my career, I have worked with recombinant proteins across different systems: therapeutic protein engineering, plant molecular farming using duckweed, and precision fermentation in industrial biotechnology.
Each platform taught me something different. Microbial fermentation can offer speed, scalability, and process control. Plant-based systems can open alternative possibilities for molecular farming and complex biological production. Other platforms may be more suitable when protein complexity, post-translational modifications, downstream processing, or regulatory requirements become the main constraints.
There is no universally “best” production platform.
The real challenge is understanding the target protein, the biology of the host, the manufacturing constraints, the economics, and the final application.
In biomanufacturing, the future will not be built by one platform replacing all others. It will be built by choosing the right platform for the right problem.

What do you think: will the future of biotechnology be dominated by one production platform or by complementary platforms working together?

🔑 From biology to scalable biomanufacturing.

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