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by arrosenberg 1780 days ago
Interesting concept. Are you extracting existing compounds from the milk and concentrating them to a therapeutic dose, or are you using milk proteins as a scaffolding for synthesis?

Have you mapped out the mechanism of action by which the peptides are antimicrobial? How does it compare to antibiotics derived from fungi?

How scalable is this if it works as well as you hope it will? Is there a path to peptide synthesis without requiring milk as an input?

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Thanks for your question. Our initial analysis was from a small batch of milk, separation from other components, and evaluating function. Subsequently, we have been getting them synthetically made, determining dose and therapeutic index, to scale, and without the need for milk from an animal source.