the news was buried in this article,
titled 'Structure of a heterogeneous, glycosylated,lipid-bound, in vivo-grown protein crystal at atomic resolution from the viviparous Diploptera punctata', no wonder so many people missed it, so how exactly do you get milk from one of the world's few species of live bearing cockroach? namely the Pacific Beetle Cockroach, well the good news is you do not, scientists are sequencing the genes responsible for the
production of milk protein crystals, so the hope is that eventually we will have laboratory grown fresh cockroach milk, "The
crystals are like a complete food - they have proteins, fats and sugars. If you
look into the protein sequences, they have all the essential amino acids,"
said one scientist from the team, Sanchari Banerjee, to the Times of India, what's also fascinating, the milk
crystals release proteins not all at once but in accordance with the speed of
digestion, the leader of the project, Subramanian Ramaswamy, confirmed that: "It's
time-released food if you need food that is calorifically high, that is time
released and food that is complete. This is it." this calorie-rich food
will be especially helpful to those who struggle to get the necessary amount of
calories per day. The roach milk can be a quick source of necessary nutrition,
with Ramaswamy calling it “a fantastic protein supplement" so you never know, the next time you are in the dairy part of a store you might hear, 'a pint of roach to go please!'
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