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Bio-Engineered Yeast Cranks Out Pharmaceuticals

Chemical engineers at the California Institute of Technology have used various plant genes to genetically modify common baker’s yeast to produce large quantities of drugs, including antibiotics, nicotine, and even morphine. Writing about their work in Nature Chemical Biology, Caltech’s Christina D. Smolke and Kristy Hawkins explained how they genetically modified baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) […]

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