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Dare to Be Different

Dare to Be Different

By: Chris Yeung
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 Spotlighting founders who are rewriting the rules and reshaping entire industries. People who are daring to be different and asking "why not?"

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  • Revolutionizing Biotech with Fruit Flies | Future Fields

    Revolutionizing Biotech with Fruit Flies | Future Fields
    Jun 4 2025

    What if fruit flies could manufacture life-saving drugs?


    In this episode of Dare to Be Different, we go inside Future Fields, an Edmonton-based biotech startup that’s turning the biotech industry on its head with genetically engineered fruit flies. Co-founders Matt and Jalene are building a scalable, sustainable platform for producing previously “unmakeable” proteins, without using traditional bioreactors.


    From their pivot out of the alt-meat space to their revolutionary approach to recombinant protein manufacturing, this episode dives into:


    • Why fruit flies are a game-changer for biomanufacturing

    • How Future Fields is making drug development faster and cheaper

    • What it takes to build a values-driven biotech company from scratch

    • The culture of cross-disciplinary innovation behind their success


    This episode is sponsored by MNP Canada.

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