Friday, November 2, 2018

Will Your Baby Formula Be Made from Algae?

An article in Food Navigator reports how a San Diego Company is producing breast milk proteins from algea.  Scientists at Triton introduced a gene into an algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

San Diego start-up develops algae production platform capable of producing proteins found in bovine and human breast milk 
29-Oct-2018 By Elaine Watson

A San Diego-based firm building a production platform for food proteins from green algae says it can produce recombinant proteins identical to those found in bovine and human breast milk, which it claims could prove a game changer in the infant formula market.

https://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Article/2018/10/29/Triton-Algae-Innovations-develops-algae-production-platform-capable-of-producing-proteins-found-in-bovine-and-human-breast-milk


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