Microbes could make drug production more efficient

Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 07:31 in Biology & Nature

Alkaloid-based pharmaceuticals derived from plants can be potent treatments for a variety of illnesses. But getting these powerful therapeutic agents from plants can take a long time and cost plenty of money, because it often takes a lot of plants to make a small amount of drug product.

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