A North Carolina startup called BIOMILQ may have whipped up a nutritionally comparable alternative to human breast milk — except this milk isn’t produced in a mammary gland, but in a bioreactor.

For parents who can’t breastfeed or who adopted or used surrogates, having another option for their children besides formula milk could be a game-changer. It’s also very common for women to not be able to produce enough breast milk on their own.

Co-founder and chief science officer of BIOMILQ, Leila Strickland,