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While AI Gets All the Attention, Biotech is Having a Moment
Organically grown vegan leather that can dye itself
Those words shouldn’t go together.
Today it seems, thanks to a host of technological breakthroughs, anything is possible.
The buzz word, or acronym rather, everywhere you turn today is AI. Artificial intelligence, its revolutionary promises, hopes, and aspirations are on everyone’s mind.
Good or bad, artificial intelligence will eventually have an outsized impacts on our lives.
What is getting far less attention though is the field of biotechnology. More specifically, bacterial, yeast, and cellular gene editing. This vast area of study has seen remarkable innovations in food, medicine, sustainability, and most recently, fashion.
First food, now fashion
Long before they became a staple in supermarkets and fast food chains, vegan burgers were just another laboratory concept.
Patrick Brown, and his company Impossible Foods, were instrumental in using yeast cells to produce heme protein — the ingredient which gives an impossible burger a meat like texture and consistency.
