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The Real Vegan Cheese team has emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area to create the world’s first real vegan cheese. The team is a collaborative effort between Oakland-based Counter Culture Labs and Sunnyvale’s BioCurious. We are attempting to make a real vegan cheese by engineering normal baker's yeast (S. cerevisiae) to express milk proteins (caseins), purifying the proteins, creating a milk-substitute by blending in vegan replacements for lactose and milk fat, and finally turning the resulting milk-substitute into semi-hard cheese like gouda using the regular cheese-making process.

In doing so we are not only creating something that will revolutionize the food industry, but we are also representing the groundbreaking concept of citizen science and community labs. We are giving people of all sorts of ages and experience the opportunity to learn and take part in something revolutionary.

We have gone through numerous hurdles; we have strived and put our utmost effort into keeping this project open source and non-profit.

We represent something different - something revolutionary. Powered by citizen science and representing a community spirit, we are attempting to do something that will provide vegans, lactose intolerant people, and people with cow’s milk allergies around the world with an alternative- real vegan cheese.

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