How We Grow Sea Food

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Aria Teitel and arry Jusson are the founders of fta, a company that produces high-quality sea food. They started out by growing salmon cells in their San Francisco lab on nights and week ends. Now they're trying to grow fish using this same method so it can be fed to more people around the world. The challenge is finding uncontaminated sea food anywhere in the world.

When Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck met in 2011, they had no intention of starting a business. Aryé was a cardiologist, and Justin was a diplomat who had lived in countries all over the world. But their chance meeting at a dinner party led to a deep friendship focused on working together to change the world. Through regular Saturday morning brainstorming sessions, they settled on pursuing a scientific approach to growing meat for human consumption.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Aryé and Justin discuss the problems with modern seafood production and how their company, Wildtype, hopes to revolutionize the industry by using stem cells to cultivate real, sushi-grade salmon...without harming any actual fish.

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