At BPI Europe in April 2019, Dirk Gewert (business unit leader of bioproduction at Horizon Discovery) told BioProcess Insider that Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell lines haven’t changed much in the 30 years since they were first used in biomanufacturing (1). Only a few companies offered commercially available, production-ready CHO cell lines for large-scale manufacturing of biotherapeutics. “In all cases,” he said, “cell lines were selected by identifying high-expressing clones and focusing on process optimization to improve expression and other…