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Biohackers making "real vegan cheese"



The biohackers at BioCurious and Counter Culture Labs are seeking support in their effort to bioengineer baker’s yeast to make Real Vegan Cheese!

Real Vegan Cheese is a not a cheese substitute! It all begins with regular old baker’s yeast. Through synthetic biology, we engineer our yeast to become milk-protein factories, churning out real milk proteins (known as caseins). These milk proteins are then combined with water, vegan sugar and oil to make a kind of milk which is ultimately converted into Real Vegan Cheese using the age-old cheese-making process.

Real Vegan Cheese (Thanks, Eri Gentry!)

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