Glands would work like little milk machines. You give them the nutrients and boom you get the milk. Freaky, huh?  December 2022, Perfect Day launched the first precision fermentation milk available in Asian supermarkets. It contains the milk proteins whey and casein produced in a bioreactor instead of a cow. Especially whey protein is pretty tricky to make, so it's a real breakthrough. The product is cholesterol-free, hormone-free, and low in sugar and saturated fat. Like conventional dairy, it's a good source of protein and calcium. The Perfect Day cow-free milk is as identical to conventional milk as possible. But at a molecular level, it's still not the same. So in this episode, you will find out why it's hard to re-create conventional dairy milk. And what technology may come after precision fermentation. Something we will call "cells as machinery." or cell-based milk. To look into the future, you will hear from TurtleTree CSO Aletta Schnitzler. Turtletree develops dairy bioactive, so recreating parts of milk that are probiotic or have other health benefits. The bioactive can be added to plant-based products to make them more nutritious. But in parallel, they are also looking at the moonshot solution of using glands to produce milk. So you would grow the glands and give them the necessary nutrients and environment to work as little milk machines. We will clarify this more in a few minutes. Cell-based milk is some of the crazier stuff I have come across in my research on biotech. So I hope you will enjoy this as much as I did. Let's jump right in Check out our supporter of this season FoodLabs and their Climate Program: https://www.foodlabs.com/ Check out our supporter of this season ProVeg Incubator and their 12-month incubator program: https://provegincubator.com/ LINKS Check out our supporter of this season FoodLabs and their Climate Program: https://www.foodlabs.com/ Check out our supporter of this season ProVeg Incubator and their 12-month incubator program: https://provegincubator.com/ More info and links to resources on https://redtogreen.solutions/   For sponsorships, collaborations, volunteering, or feedback write Marina at change@redtogreen.solutions Please leave a review on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/red-to-green-food-sustainability/id1511303510 Connect with Marina Schmidt https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmidt-marina/ Topics and hashtags for this episode Cells as machinery Turtletree company Cell biotechnology Cell-based milk what is cell-based milk Cell-based cheese Cell-based dairy Bioreactor Hashtags for the season Biotechnology in food What is biotechnology food Food biotechnology examples Food biotechnology startups Biotechnology food companies Biotech food in USA Food biotechnology examples