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Interesting! They are in planting DNA into yeast so it can turn sugar into Opioids.

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It will be interesting to see if a switch away from growing poppies to yeast will be good or bad for poor farmers. I mean it is a solid income,but bad for the community in general.

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The yeast technology would have to be vastly improved before the criminal syndicates take it seriously.
From the article:

The new Stanford strain, described Thursday in the journal Science, would need to be 100,000 times as efficient in order to match the yield of poppies.

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you can see why researchers might want to underplay the feasibility of something like this too :wink:

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