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This company’s founder, Patrick Brown, started the PLOS (“plahss”) journal with Michael Eisen and invented the DNA microarray. This California-based company is in a protracted legal battle with its Boston rival, Motif, over the patentability of substrates for the Maillard reaction. After the FDA ruled in 2018 that yeast-fermented leghemoglobin, used by this company as a colorant, was “Generally Regarded as Safe,” it began selling its flagship product in stores. Beyond Meat quickly struck up a deal with McDonalds after the 2019 national rollout of this company’s product inside a Whopper. For 10 points, name this biotech company that produces a popular vegan hamburger. ■END■
ANSWER: Impossible Foods, Inc. [accept Impossible burgers or Impossible meat or Impossible beef]
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| Geoffrey Wu (UG) | Columbia A | Swarthmore A | 48 | -5 |
| Zaid Asif (DII) | NYU A | University of Delaware A | 70 | -5 |
| Rio Lucenet (UG) | NYU C | NYU B | 75 | 10 |
| Wade Rogers (DII) | Fordham | Swarthmore B | 80 | 10 |
| Kaiden Carey (DII) | Penn | Princeton | 89 | 10 |
| Will Hollister (DII) | Lehigh | University of Delaware B | 101 | -5 |
| Jasmine Bao (UG) | Swarthmore A | Columbia A | 103 | 0 |
| Daniel Shannon (DII) | University of Delaware A | NYU A | 103 | 10 |