
065- Engineering a pre-alcohol probiotic with Zack Abbott of ZBiotics
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The World's First Genetically Modified Probiotic
We've been engineering microbes for like 40 years um but nobody has ever engineered a probiotic bacteria that you can eat. The FDA generally recognizes safe bacteria and not necessarily some sort of pharmaceutical correctYeah so it's all about the application and i wouldn't say that we sidestepped it it's that like we basically we decided we weren't going to build a drug right? So with our first product it expresses this enzyme acidity hydrogenates that has no risk of being over expressed if we turn on or off.
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