Chemistry major Stephan Kudlacek and professor Greg Weiss have developed a way of unboiling a hen egg. Credit: Steve Zylius / UC Irvine UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem.