Animal-free dairy: New Culture plans 2023 launch of Mozzarella – minus the cows New Culture – one of a cluster of startups in the emerging ‘animal-free’ dairy space engineering microbes to produce dairy milk proteins, without cows – is aiming to launch animal-free Mozzarella in late 2023.
While plant-based dairy products continue to improve, plant-based cheese presents particular formulation challenges, in part because it’s hard to replicate the functional qualities of casein, the protein in cow’s milk responsible for the ‘stretchy’ quality of cheese such as Mozzarella, claims
While some consumer products featuring animal-free whey protein are
already on the market, casein is more difficult to produce at scale via microbial fermentation, claimed Gibson, a new Zealander who moved to California to build New Culture (strapline: Cow cheese, without the cow ).
Despite COVID-19, pharma R&D funding at all-time high: IQVIA According to the clinical research solutions firm, disruptions due to the pandemic did not stop the industry from fueling R&D at unprecedented levels.
The IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science has released its latest industry latest report, Global Trends in R&D: Overview Through 2020. According to the findings, research and development funding maintained historically high levels, thanks to new funding sources, strategic transactions, and other activity.
Murray Aitken, executive director of the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, spoke with Outsourcing-Pharma about the report. He shared perspective on what the document reveals about the industry’s optimism, ingenuity, and innovation.
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Cell-cultured human milk will be nutritional gamechanger for infant formula, says BIOMILQ, ‘but it’s not bio-identical to mother’s milk’ By Elaine Watson BIOMILQ – a North Carolina-based startup culturing human mammary cells that lactate – says new tests show its milk is not bio-identical to breastmilk, but is significantly closer to it than any infant formula currently on the market.
Co-founder and CEO Michelle Egger told FoodNavigator-USA:
“We’re probably about a year from a whole human milk product that could go into market, but we have a heck of a lot of regulatory work ahead of us before that point. We’re very focused on bringing whole human milk to market direct to consumer.