Hi. I'm one of the team members. We are all volunteers and all work is being done at community laboratories with very low fees. Many of our reagents are donated and all work is being immediately published under free culture licenses or as public domain. You are both right about the cost. This campaign will fund us enough to show proof of concept (world's first real vegan cheese). A larger sum will be needed to get stable high levels of expression and scale everything up into a financially viable food-safe production facility.