Would You Feed Your Baby Breast Milk From a Lab? | Opinion Claire Turrell
, freelance journalist On 2/25/21 at 7:30 AM EST
Breast may be seen as best, but scientists are now devising a motherless alternative.
Labs in Singapore and the U.S. are creating breast milk without involving a mother. In a time when cottagecore and sourdough bread are the hashtags
du jour, the idea of taking one of the world s most organic, precious commodities and recreating it in a lab may seem rather risky. But what you may be surprised to know is that this milk isn t an imitation–it s the real thing.
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TurtleTree Labs aims to produce growth factors for cell cultured meat, milk, at fraction of price of pharma grade equivalents By Elaine Watson For cell-cultured meat to be commercially viable, we’ll need to see significant movement in the price and availability of growth factors (signaling proteins that stimulate cell growth and differentiation) says startup TurtleTree Labs, which has created a new division dedicated to creating high-volume, cost-efficient growth factors.
Like cell-cultured meat companies,
TurtleTree Labs - which makes the key components of human breastmilk by culturing mammary cells in a bioreactor - also relies on cell culture media and growth factors to make its milk.