Researchers at Stanford University genetically engineered yeast to make painkilling medicines, a breakthrough that paves way for faster and potentially less expensive way to produce many different types of plant-based medicines. Published…
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Home-brewing your own morphine, other drugs could soon be a reality
Using the age-old idea of employing yeast to convert sugar into alcohol, researchers have formulated key steps using which sugar-fed yeast can be turned into a microbial factory to churn out therapeutic…