Yeast-produced feed additives on road to commercialisation


Brandon How
Reporter

Bioengineering startup Number 8 Bio’s microorganisms could greatly scale the feed additive production process, cutting livestock greenhouse gas emissions and boosting productivity.

CSIRO spin-out Future Feed holds the patent for using Asparagopsis as a methane reducing feed additive, Number 8 Bio has engineered yeast cells to produce “the same functional molecules” using fermentation, the process that raises bread.

A successful participant of the first cohort of UNSW’s accelerator program, Number …

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