Thanks Jeff!! I’ve been waiting for this exact news for 23 years.
As a college undergrad I ate an obscene amount of egg whites and whey protein. I also regularly genetically engineered yeast (and E.coli) to create small batches of protein for x-ray crystallography. I thought it would be a fairly simple engineering problem to create these proteins at scale in a way that would be more resource efficient and require less animal suffering.
I considered trying to go the entrepreneurial route and develop this myself; given how long its taken to make this happen and how slowly the cost has come down (Perfect Day has been doing for years for whey what Every now does for ovalbumin), it seems like the engineering side is much more difficult than I could have imagined. I’m still optimistic that these process will improve to the point that they can provide these proteins at a much cheaper price point than the animal sourced versions. If anyone has any info on the constraints here, or wants to start a prediction market on when the products will reach cost parity, I’d love to see it!
Thanks Jeff!! I’ve been waiting for this exact news for 23 years.
As a college undergrad I ate an obscene amount of egg whites and whey protein. I also regularly genetically engineered yeast (and E.coli) to create small batches of protein for x-ray crystallography. I thought it would be a fairly simple engineering problem to create these proteins at scale in a way that would be more resource efficient and require less animal suffering.
I considered trying to go the entrepreneurial route and develop this myself; given how long its taken to make this happen and how slowly the cost has come down (Perfect Day has been doing for years for whey what Every now does for ovalbumin), it seems like the engineering side is much more difficult than I could have imagined. I’m still optimistic that these process will improve to the point that they can provide these proteins at a much cheaper price point than the animal sourced versions. If anyone has any info on the constraints here, or wants to start a prediction market on when the products will reach cost parity, I’d love to see it!