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Posted on March 9, 2017

A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out Drugs

A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out Drugs
Scientists are building the first eukaryote genome from scratch. The post A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out Drugs appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on March 10, 2016

Mutant Yeast Are Cranking Out Pharma’s Next Superdrug

Mutant Yeast Are Cranking Out Pharma’s Next Superdrug
The offices of Adimab, a biotech company in New Hampshire, smell like bread. But nobody's baking anything. Instead, Adimab is using yeast to cure cancer. The post Mutant Yeast Are Cranking Out Pharma's Next Superdrug appeared first on WIRED.
Posted on August 13, 2015

Don’t Try This at Home: Scientists Brew Opiates With Yeast

Don’t Try This at Home: Scientists Brew Opiates With Yeast

If pharma has it their way, they'll soon be making commercial opiate drugs with little more than yeast and sugar.

The post Don’t Try This at Home: Scientists Brew Opiates With Yeast appeared first on WIRED.

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