Succeeded in producing milk without using cow and making cheese

ByElvis Kennedy

Milk refers to milk which can be taken from "cattle" literally, but with modern science it is possible to produce milk without the help of cattle. Cheese using such "milk" is said to make vegetarian safe to eat, but the whole story about how it is being produced has been released as a movie on YouTube.

Cow Milk Without the Cow Is Coming to Change Food Forever | WIRED
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/diy-biotech-vegan-cheese/

Based in Auckland, CaliforniaCounter Culture LabsThen, unusual experiments are being conducted. The scenery where the laboratory instruments such as the microscope and the flask are lined up is not much different from the general research facility, but as the facility name "Counter Culture Labs" (opposition culture research laboratory) shows, there "hacking nature" Research is being carried out for.

The problem that a group of research laboratories is working on is contradictory, "Make cheese from milk, but not cattle". A movie that summarizes the aim of such a group is released.

Real Vegan Cheese - Launch video - YouTube


Cheese made mainly from milk such as cow and sheep has been eaten all over the world as a nutritious high-grade food for a long time.


At the moment the raw material mainly used is milk.


To take milk, of course, the presence of cows is indispensable.


However, the breeding environment of dairy cattle to take milk is sometimes not necessarily the best. In response to these circumstances, avoiding eating animals, further avoiding ingestion of dairy products and fat derived from animals (VegetarianVeganThere is. Cheese made from cow's milk, of course, food to avoid for a full vegetarian.


Cheese that can be eaten even by such peopleReal Vegan CheeseWe are advancing research to create (real vegetarian cheese) "is a group of researchers gathering at Counter Culture Labs.


Cheese is made by coagulation of protein contained in milk. In the case of cheese made from milk, the protein is made by cattle.


On the other hand, Real Vegan Cheese is based on proteins made by small invisible organisms.


Its yeast is an active yeast, such as when making bread. However, normal yeast should not produce protein.


The method taken by the research team is to create a new type of yeast which manipulates the yeast genes and produces proteins in their activities.


In modern era where genetic engineering has developed, genetic modification can be done easily. In fact, at the research team, we asked a provider that provides services on the Internet, succeeded in producing a yeast that produces a protein that serves as a source of cheese by cattle extracting genes that produce proteins and transplanting them to yeast is.


The yeast produced in this way creates proteins one after another as it grows.


And when you use a machine to separate yeast and protein, the cheese "cheese protein" remains.


Add fat, sugar, and water to this ... ...


Stir using the machine.


In this state, cheese raw material was completed perfectly.


After that, I do almost the same procedure as making regular cheese.


The ingredients solidify ... ...


If fermentation is carried out, Real Vegan Cheese is completed.


Real Vegan Cheese, which was created in the movie, is produced by transplanting the gene of the cow to yeast, but in fact the research team has already succeeded in incorporating human genes into yeast. In other words, by going through the same process as the above movie, breast milk can be made without human beings, and more dairy products can be produced. However, to make breast milk cheese FDA (American Food and Drug Administration) Have expressed concern, and because of the possibility of causing immunological problems in the human body, ethical considerations, etc., it seems to be in a state of being interrupted.

If this cow's milk and cheese are as good as the existing genetically modified foods, they are likely to spread to the market if they are not inferior in taste and cost, but are they realistic?