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Scientists Warn Home-Brewed Heroin is Almost Here
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18.05.2015
Making opiates is a long and laborious process that starts in the arid poppy fields of the Middle East. But a new method could one day allow “home brewers” to make the drugs just about anywhere, with not much more than a jar of specialized yeast. With the tricks of genetic engineering, scientists have figured out how to turn ordinary brewers yeast into a fermentation machine that could transform sugar into our most widely prescribed painkillers, not to mention heroin. Scientists have long been working on this complex chemical process, and a crucial missing piece was published Monday in Nature Chemical Biology. Kenneth Oye, a professor of political science and engineering systems at MIT, said, "Things are moving really fast right now. It’s not like tomorrow someone’s going to have a fully integrated, one-pot pathway to go from sugar to morphine, but it’s coming.”
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