Showing posts with label synthetic human breastmilk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synthetic human breastmilk. Show all posts

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?