Take some carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen plus electricity from renewable sources – a bacterium and baker’s yeast need little more to produce proteins for human nourishment and the essential vitamin B9 in a conventional laboratory bioreactor system.
This was the result achieved by a research team led by Professor Lars Angenent from Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Tübingen during the further development of his power-to-protein system. The new protein product with folate B9 can serve as a vegan basis for meat substitutes, potentially offering a long-term, climate-friendly way to feed a growing world population. The study has been published in Trends in Biotechnology.
