Yeast Can Now Make Opiates
A strain of yeast engineered in a lab was able to transform sugar into a pain-killing drug — called hydrocodone — for the first time. And a second strain was able to produce thebaine, an opiate precursor that drug companies use to make oxycodone.

August 13, 2015 at 02:09PM
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