A Silicon-valley based biotech start-up is soon going to be testing the market for milk created in a lab, with their production of genetically-engineered yeast as an alternative to cow produced milk.
We have already had the world’s first laboratory grown burger, produced to the cost of nearly €300,000 in August 2013.
Now the food industry is gearing up for the world’s first laboratory grown milk product, aptly named Muufri, (pronounced Moo-Free), the final product of which is due to be ready in July 2015. Ryan Pandya and Perumal Gandhi, young bioengineers who work in California’s Silicon Valley, have been trialling milk made from the genetic engineering of yeast since May last year.
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