Why biosynthesis is evolutionarily hard

4:58directly. >> Yeah. And it's not like toxic, >> right? Got it. >> Because because it's already a sort of organic compound. That makes sense. >> Um the other thing is like it could be used in cosmetics if you have like multifunctional ingredients or like health and skincare. It's very UV protectant >> these these coatings. So if we can massproduce a lot of it, that would be really helpful for all sorts of industries. The bottleneck is a supply challenge. Okay, you can't just go into biology and try to extract it. Like how many butterflies are you going to kill, right? Or like octopus. It's just not It's low yielding. It's labor intensive. And it's not ethical, right? >> It's not like mining. Yes. >> Which you could argue is also not although for different reasons. >> Exactly. So this breakthrough here reports the first successful industrial

5:39Graham scale biosynthesis. >> Okay. >> Understood. Got it. Yep. And the way that they did this scaling and this production is actually what I think the story is about, the real science is about because the way that they produce this is kind of a plugandplay type pathway that you could use to then manufacture other challenging biochemicals. The analogy that this