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Saving the f#$%ing rainforests with Shara Ticku of C16 Biosciences
How I Built This with Guy Raz
The Importance of Fermentation
We were doing a lot of this in basements at the time, in kitchens. If you're a trained scientist, yes. I think if you were at your average consumer, it would be a bit challenging. You need a sanitary environment and things like that. And so in the early days, we did work with conventional equipment. We've used sort of the tools of biotech to improve that but we found a yeast, which was sort of the workhorse for us. It was doing all the hard work. So the yeast was naturally making an oil like we wanted to. Instead of finding the DNA responsible for producing oil in the oil palm tree, and then importing that and genetically inserting
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