108: Microbes, Heme, and Impossible Burgers with Pat Brown

Pat Brown founded Impossible Foods with a mission to replace animals as a food production technology. Here, he discusses the ways microbial engineering helps produce the plant hemoglobin that provides the Impossible Burger’s meaty qualities.

Links for this episode:

• Take the MTM listener survey(~3 min.)
• The Microbial Reasons Why the Impossible Tastes So Good
• Impossible Foods
• The Conversation: What Makes the Impossible Burger Look and Taste Like Real Beef?
• Wired:The Impossible Burger: Inside the Strange Science of the Fake Meat that ‘Bleeds’
• HOM Tidbit: Mendel’s letters to von Nägeli
• HOM Tidbit:The Mendel-Nägeli Letters, circa 1866-73 (Scientific American)