Sunday, January 10, 2021

Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab

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"... For years [Leila Strickland] struggled to keep the project funded, and she came close to abandoning the idea. But in May 2020, Biomilq, a company she had founded, got $3.5 million from a group of investors led by Bill Gates. Biomilq is now in a race with competitors in Singapore and New York to shake up the world of infant nutrition in a way not seen since the birth of the now $42 billion formula industry. ..."

Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab | MIT Technology Review (behind paywall) Many parents rely on infant formula to feed their newborns. Could cell culture technology produce something closer to human breast milk?

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