Meet Gabriella Rothberg, the 17-year-old Miami student who began with a sandwich idea at 15 and became co-inventor on a US patent for genetically engineered tomatoes designed to produce meat-linked heme
- Gabriella hopes the technology could make vegetables taste like meat (AI-enhanced photo: Instagram/Incubate Debate)A sandwich Gabriella Rothberg was making for her father when she was 15 led to an unusual question- Could a tomato be made to taste like meat?
- Two years later, the 17-year-old student from Miami is listed as a co-inventor on a US patent for genetically engineered tomatoes designed to produce heme, an iron-containing molecule associated with the flavour of meat.
- Gabriella, a senior at Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove, worked on the project with her father, biotechnology ent
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- Gabriella hopes the technology could make vegetables taste like meat (AI-enhanced photo: Instagram/Incubate Debate)A sandwich Gabriella Rothberg was making for her father when she was 15 led to an unusual question- Could a tomato be made to taste like meat?
- Two years later, the 17-year-old student from Miami is listed as a co-inventor on a US patent for genetically engineered tomatoes designed to produce heme, an iron-containing molecule associated with the flavour of meat.
- Gabriella, a senior at Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove, worked on the project with her father, biotechnology ent
Sources: Times of India