Imagine the idea: growing materials like biocellulose directly in space, instead of sending them from Earth. A Silicon Valley startup says so? No, it's a Neapolitan project. It's called GeneCell, it won the Campania Region's Aerospace competition, and the startup presented it just yesterday, May 28th, at the Innovation Village 2026. The idea, led by Paolo Antonio Netti of CRIB at Federico II University, can be explained in two lines: an automate…
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Imagine the idea: growing materials like biocellulose directly in space, instead of sending them from Earth. A Silicon Valley startup says so? No, it's a Neapolitan project. It's called GeneCell, it won the Campania Region's Aerospace competition, and the startup presented it just yesterday, May 28th, at the Innovation Village 2026. The idea, led by Paolo Antonio Netti of CRIB at Federico II University, can be explained in two lines: an automate…