"The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones."
"The oil age will end long before we run out of oil."
Man, I hope that second statement is true.
In this TEDx talk, we hear about materials - collagen, humira (a drug), resilin (which I had to look up) - being produced in plant cells at scales large enough to be industrially practical.
The speaker discusses the final steps in harvesting the collagen to be 'like making pesto', but if I remember my pesto recipes from the past, the steps leading up to grinding the leaves didn't involve gene editing.
Though I could be wrong.
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