Turning Yeast Into Morphine At Home Could Be A Brewing Controversy

People with home-brewed beer rigs and backyard distilleries already know how to employ yeast to convert sugar into alcohol. - they soon might be able to turn sugar-fed yeast into a microbial factory for producing morphine and potentially other drugs, including antibiotics and anti-cancer therapeutics.  It might be the age of home-brewed pharmaceuticals, DIY Bio taken to the next level. read more

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