Normal human cells grown in culture will go through up to 50 replication cycles, then hit senescence. Cancer cells will continue to replicate beyond 50 cycles.
I am betting they are using an immortal cancer cell line.
I have to admit, I am really struggling to see what their market strategy could be myself. Unless they get legislation or regulation to ban sale of natural breast milk it is hard to see this catching on outside of the kind of Silicon Valley twits she complains about. Of course such bans are probably precisely the plan once they have a product they can put on shelves. Still, the market seems very small, limited to rich women who don’t like the idea of donated natural milk and women in remote regions who don’t have access to it.
This whole thing smells of a business scam designed to make money up front because if you don’t invest you hate women, with no real plan for a viable business to come out the other side.
You might not be far off the mark. I mentioned in my footnotes another New Yorker article called "The Future of Fertility: A new crop of biotech startups want to revolutionize human reproduction." Evil nerds!
Normal human cells grown in culture will go through up to 50 replication cycles, then hit senescence. Cancer cells will continue to replicate beyond 50 cycles.
I am betting they are using an immortal cancer cell line.
I bet they do whatever is cheapest.
I have to admit, I am really struggling to see what their market strategy could be myself. Unless they get legislation or regulation to ban sale of natural breast milk it is hard to see this catching on outside of the kind of Silicon Valley twits she complains about. Of course such bans are probably precisely the plan once they have a product they can put on shelves. Still, the market seems very small, limited to rich women who don’t like the idea of donated natural milk and women in remote regions who don’t have access to it.
This whole thing smells of a business scam designed to make money up front because if you don’t invest you hate women, with no real plan for a viable business to come out the other side.
You mean like Theranos? 😏
Could there be a pattern? Does she have the crazy eyes?! :)
A lot of girls won’t be able to have kids. Maybe that’s when they introduce the lab-grown babies? Totally nuts theory, but that’s where my head went.
You might not be far off the mark. I mentioned in my footnotes another New Yorker article called "The Future of Fertility: A new crop of biotech startups want to revolutionize human reproduction." Evil nerds!
I would not be too surprised there, either. It would be a trendy upmarket replacement for mere baby formula.