Dr. Joshua (Josh) Benoit

So their birth process effectively reminds me of like when you're at the circus and you see the clown car come out.

And you see like the 20 clowns exit the car because you'll see this mom and like a couple come out and then you watch and then a couple more come out and then a few more and then a few more.

And it's just like there's not the space.

But the reason there's not the space is as they're emerging, they're actually inflating with air at that point.

And so they come out about –

two to three times bigger than they were within the actual brood sack.

But it's like a clown car.

It's just milk.

So for the tsetse flies, it's a lipocalin, an acid sphingomyelinase, a transferrin, and then a kind of unknown milk protein family.

And then it has some protein and some lipids I get transferred over.

Not a lot of sugar in that one, but it is really a class of lipokalins.

And that's what all the proteins is pretty much for that one.

And it's lipokalins are kind of these small proteins and they have a little pocket to like carry stuff in them.

And it's usually something like a fat soluble vitamins or something along those lines that can't be transferred very well in water.

is probably being transferred with some specific fatty acid.

So it's really just very similar to milk.

And it's like mammalian milk as kind of make sure you have your kiddo to grow up big and strong is coming along in that milk.

I think that may be a step too far for it.

And so I think it's one of these ones where it's always that kind of industrialization process where you have to move it to make an in-bulk.

Problem is, it's really hard to make these in bulk because when you make a lot of lipokalens artificially, it usually kills sometimes what you're making it in if it's not properly synthesized.