Wednesday 31 December 2014

Biochemists Are Turning Genetically Modified Yeast Into Perfume and Opioids

Biochemists Are Turning Genetically Modified Yeast Into Perfume and Opioids

GETTY IMAGES Yeast. Is there nothing it can’t do? Scoop it up from nature and it makes alcohol. Fiddle with the genes and you can coax it to produce gasoline. Useful, but such synbio projects tend not to be cost-effective. Now, though, biochemists are genetically modifying yeast and algae to produce stuff with good enough […]


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