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minus-squaredrosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoI feel like we should be trying to engineer fusarium venenatum to express various animal proteins. It already does a really good job as a meat substitute, and (unlike lab grown meat) the process for culturing it is very well understood and mature. I don’t know if trying to genetically engineer a fungus would present any special challenges vs a plant or bacteria though.
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I feel like we should be trying to engineer fusarium venenatum to express various animal proteins.
It already does a really good job as a meat substitute, and (unlike lab grown meat) the process for culturing it is very well understood and mature.
I don’t know if trying to genetically engineer a fungus would present any special challenges vs a plant or bacteria though.