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Welcome to Real Vegan Cheese

A bunch of tools, tips, and info to help you get started with Real Vegan Cheese. There’s a decent bit of science, and most of us learned it right here, so there’s definitely a place for you! Read on for some helpful resources to make it better and easier, our unofficial onboarding process if you will!

Project Update: Giving Tuesday Press Release - Nov 2018

REAL VEGAN CHEESE: VEGAN CHEESE GETS REAL

Nonprofit group shows proof of concept that they can produce animal free cheese.

OAKLAND, CA -- November 27, 2018: Real Vegan Cheese (RVC) is a grass-roots, non-profit Open Science collective dedicated to producing sustainable, animal-free cheese. The product will have cheese proteins identical to traditional animal based dairy cheeses, but without animal suffering, a lot less greenhouse gas emissions, and no stomach-roiling lactose. The RVC team has achieved initial milestones in their work to produce cheese using cellular agriculture techniques.


Launched in 2014 as an entry in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM), the project raised initial funds through a 2014 Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. In 2018 the team secured additional funding from a private foundation which enabled more intensive lab work. This led to a breakthrough achievement: production of all four cheese proteins (alpha-s1, alpha-s2, beta, and kappa casein) in friendly microbes, and successful purification of three of the four. The team will be sending out DNA kits with the successful genes to their Indiegogo backers.

Happy #GivingTuesday from the Real Vegan Cheese team!

The Real Vegan Cheese team has kept steadily working on this project, and we have some great updates for you!

A lot of things have happened since our last note to you. The team has been meeting bi-monthly for 4 years with over 270 participants who have contributed their time as a volunteers to the project. We have now reached the point where we have successfully produced all four of the casein proteins found in cheese, and we have even started putting them together into experimental mini-cheeselets!

Here's some more detailed progress updates since our last update: