Fengru Lin of TurtleTree Labs on cultivating human breast milk and how it can help improve our health

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Did you know that breast milk is brimming with thousands of compounds that could be beneficial to human health? Hear from Fengru Lin, Co-founder and CEO of TurtleTree Labs, a Singapore-based startup that is cultivating human breast milk in bioreactors to make these nutritional compounds available to a wider audience. In this episode, you'll learn about: 1) How the process of cultivating milk proteins outside the human body works 2) The health benefits of breast milk proteins and how you can one day enjoy it in your yoghurt 3) The journey to reducing the cost of growth factors and TurtleTree's next-generation microflora-based expression system 4) What has surprised her on her start-up journey