Founded 2026 · Phase one
A sourcing intermediary for engineered living components
Wetware World is a sourcing intermediary for engineered living components. It runs on a supplier survey conducted against primary sources, a catalogue built from it, a draft open file format, and a published sourcing method.
Market
Living tissue is already manufactured centrally and mailed. Reconstructed human tissue is produced in lots and shipped at 4 °C on medium-supplemented agarose gels on a fixed weekly cadence, with a four-day shelf life including transit.
One supplier, myriamed, sells finished engineered muscle off a public storefront at €1,400 per tissue. Every other route is empty plasticware, the casting device into which the buyer seeds their own cells. Across roughly thirty organisations surveyed, none publish a force acceptance criterion for a contractile tissue. The pieces, a cell source, a mould, a casting laboratory, a stimulation rig, a force test, a cold chain, sit in about six separate organisations that do not integrate with each other.
Scope
MatTek standardised wetware for assays. Wetware World standardises wetware for machines.
The assay market has a standard format, a production cadence and a cold chain. Buyers of biohybrid actuators, neural interfaces and cultivated tissue for non-assay uses require components with geometry and a functional acceptance criterion.
Completed work
- 01
Supplier survey against primary sources
Roughly thirty organisations were read from their own product pages, technical specifications, storefront APIs and published validation work. Pages that could not be fetched are recorded as such.
Supply landscape survey, 2026-09-01
- 02
Catalogue of 66 sourceable entries across 9 categories
Each entry names candidate suppliers, the basis for including them, the pricing verification level, and links to sources. 42 are verified against a live primary source; 34 carry a published supplier price.
Published at /catalog
- 03
Draft open file format for living components
WWD is a container format for a component described as a shape plus spatially varying property fields. It reuses existing vocabularies. Draft 0.1, published openly, not patented.
Draft 0.1, published at /standard
- 04
Published sourcing method
How a supplier gets onto the list, what each confidence label means, the scope of verification, and what happens when a supplier cannot deliver.
Published at /sourcing-methodology
Operating rules
These rules determine what can appear on this site.
| Rule | Consequence |
|---|---|
| Provenance is a required field | No item can be published without stating who makes it, drawn from a closed set of four labels. |
| Every number is traceable | A figure on a page is either computed from the catalogue file that builds the site, or carries a source and a capture date. |
| No invented prices | Three states: a price with a source, a labelled indicative range, or “by quotation”. |
| No payment for placement | Suppliers do not pay to be listed, ranked or recommended. Income is a disclosed margin or brokerage fee on work ordered. |
| Null results are reported | If no laboratory will quote a specification, that is returned in writing. |
| Research use only | Research use only. Not for diagnostic or therapeutic use. Nothing routed through this site is qualified for human, clinical, diagnostic or veterinary use. |
Intent
None of the following has happened.
Now
Brokerage
Route specifications to laboratories that can build them, normalise the quotes, and publish the method and the sources. The catalogue and the survey are the product until orders exist.
Next
Independent implementations of the file format
There is currently one implementation of WWD, produced by Wetware World. The specification is published, is not patented, and neutral custodianship is planned.
Later
Manufacture
If repeated orders arrive for a component no laboratory makes, Wetware World may produce it. The label “Made by Wetware World” applies only to such items.
Buyer types
Recorded against catalogue entries.
- Biohybrid robotics and bio-actuator engineers, who need a component with a stated force output.
- Neurotech and neuromorphic developers, who need cultures that are electrically interrogable on arrival.
- Academic groups, who need a working model without an in-house cell culture programme.
- Early-stage biotech with no in-house tissue capability.
- Pharma and CRO discovery or safety groups, who need a format their assay accepts, on a fixed schedule.
- Medical device and biomaterials engineers, who need native tissue to a written specification.
- Cultivated meat and alternative protein teams, who need cells and contract culture at a defined cell mass.
- Bioart and speculative design practitioners, who need living material sourced with documentation.
Catalogue
66 entries, 42 verified against a live primary source, 34 with a published supplier price. Each entry lists its sources.