mu! Posted February 6, 2016 "News about Opium, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times."http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/opium/index.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sharxx101 Posted February 9, 2016 Interesting! They are in planting DNA into yeast so it can turn sugar into Opioids. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stonewolf Posted February 14, 2016 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mu! Posted February 14, 2016 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mu! Posted February 17, 2016 you can see why researchers might want to underplay the feasibility of something like this too 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites