Precision Fermentation
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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Friedberg predicts store-bought milk will be lab-grown within 15 years
“In the next 10 to 15 years, most of the milk you buy at the store will be Identical to cow's milk. Same protein composition.”
Specht: Food precision fermentation avoids biopharma's costly purification steps
“You need incredibly high purity, and that downstream purification is Is almost all of the cost of manufacturing those types of things. That's very different from the food space where we're talking about an ingredient where it's okay to actually have some of th…”
Friedberg: Yeast-based fermentation uses only 1.5x energy input per output
“The energy efficiency of that yeast cell, the amount of sugar it requires, and you know, if you look at all the total carbon footprint and everything that goes into making that, that, that protein using the yeast cell, it's about one and a half times the energ…”