108: Microbes, Heme, and Impossible Burgers with Pat Brown
Pat Brown founded Impossible Foods with a mission to replace animals as a food production technology. Here, he discusses the ways microbial engineering helps produce the plant hemoglobin that provides the Impossible Burger\u2019s meaty qualities.
Links for this episode:
- Take the MTM listener survey(~3 min.)
- The Microbial Reasons Why the Impossible Tastes So Good
- Impossible Foods
- The Conversation: What Makes the Impossible Burger Look and Taste Like Real Beef?
- Wired:The Impossible Burger: Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that \u2018Bleeds\u2019
- HOM Tidbit: Mendel\u2019s letters to von N\xe4geli
- HOM Tidbit:The Mendel-N\xe4geli Letters, circa 1866-73 (Scientific American)