What is Real Vegan Cheese?
Real Vegan Cheese (RVC) is a grassroots, non-profit research project working to produce real cheese using cellular agriculture. We add the genes for cheese proteins to yeast and other microflora, and turn them into little protein factories, then make real cheese by adding plant-based fats and sugars. Real Vegan Cheese is not a cheese substitute -- the cheesemaking process is just like using cow or goat milk! We are dedicated to Open Science and making sure the results of our research are available to the global community to enable a sustainable animal-free dairy industry.
PROJECTS
Want to know what we are working on? Check out our different projects, from casein protein expression to growing the open-science community.
About
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Real Vegan Cheese by reading our Frequently Asked Questions.
get involved
There are many ways to get involved and contribute to the Real Vegan Cheese project.
Open Science
We are dedicated to Open Science and making sure the results of our research are available to the global community to enable a sustainable animal-free dairy industry.
International Outreach
We’ve paved the way for international community-based research efforts, hosting and presenting at events around the globe.
community
RVC is made possible by the combined efforts of our team of biohackers and citizen scientists working out of two open community labs in the San Francisco Bay Area: Counter Culture Labs in Oakland, CA and BioCurious in Sunnyvale, CA.