• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    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.