Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics for infectious diseases

Re:Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics ... by henearkr on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:03PM (#28011153)

Once you discovered interesting peptides, please consider mass-producing them with a bioreactor e.g. of modified yeasts.

Milk will be phased out because its carbon footprint is too heavy, so even if it will probably not disappear short-term, you cannot regard it as eternally a plentiful resource, and even right now it is starting to get a stench of non-politically correct (veganism, etc).

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Re:Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics ... by ishishah on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:17PM (#28011317)

Yep. For us, production and scaling is/will continue to be COMPLETELY independent of donor milk.

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Re:Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics ... by henearkr on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:07PM (#28012368)

This is marvelous!!

I sincerely wish you a great success!

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Re:Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics ... by colechristensen on Friday July 30, 2021 @03:51PM (#28011675)

>Milk will be phased out because its carbon footprint is too heavy

It really won't. The food culture heritage of a large portion of the world won't be wiped out by an environmentalist/vegan dream. In the US there is a government finger on the scale which makes dairy quite inexpensive which might see a reduction, but carbon reduction is going to be primarily constrained to transportation and power generation.

You can have my cheese when you pry it from my cold dead fingers (unless you want some :) )

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Re:Launch HN: Matrubials (YC S21) Milk-derived therapeutics ... by henearkr on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:04PM (#28012327)

Nah, lol :)

I just said it won't disappear, exactly for the reasons you quoted! (I know the subject, I come from a cheese-loving country)

But I'm still correct that it is less and less supported.

On the CO2e side, don't underestimate the sheer amount just from the cows.

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