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Michroma takes fungal food colors platform to pilot scale to produce pH-stable, heat-stable natural red
26 Mar 2022Michroma, which has offices in Argentina and San Francisco, CA, has identified filamentous fungi strains that naturally produce a target color.
The company has deployed CRISPR gene editing technology to create proprietary, non-GMO industrial strains with superior yield and performance, explained co-founder and CEO Ricky Cassini, who worked as a professor of operations and logistics before teaming up with fellow academic Mauricio Braia in 2019. ‘Scaling up from lab scale to pilot scale is often fail".
