Biohackers Are Engineering Yeast to Make THC

[kaaos]

"Right now, growing medical marijuana is expensive and it's heavily regulated as well. It's slow to grow, you've got to go through several different strains before you get a stable blend," Sarah Choukah, CEO of Hyasynth Bio, told me. "We're thinking to bypass all this, to make it quick to grow, we can develop pot from technology that could give us customizable blends of yeast."

The plan here is much like other schemes to make bacteria, or algae, or yeast create something that it doesn't do in nature, like we see with lab-grown meat and certain types of biofuels. The team hopes to insert cannabis DNA into yeast and then use the fungus' natural biological properties to turn it into a THC factory. Besides THC and CBD, the team hopes to eventually synthesize other cannabinoids.

Source:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/biohackers-are-engineering-yeast-to-make-thc

Could this be an escape from the social conditioning revolving around marijuana or just another brick in the foundations of it's dogmatic structure by taking over the significance of the herb itself for the sake of playing God? :?

To quote this research team: "People don't like to work on cannabis research because there are regulatory hurdles to get into it. And then, I guess, there are some people who think there's an ethical issue with working on an illegal drug."

 

[Mitakuye Oyasin]

Interesting. Hope they are successful.

 

[Godsmacker]

The use of biosynthetic bacteria to create chemical compounds is simply astounding. Perhaps in the future instead of having to waste time, money, and resources synthesizing, extracting, or otherwise preparing various chemical compounds we could simply train bacteria to make the drugs for us! Perhaps one day we could use this technology to create bacteria capable of biosynthesizing LSD and MDMA together! We could just grow the bacteria, extract the goodies when the time is right, and have the time of our lives whilst forgetting what in the world time was to begin with! If any nexians have access to this technology, i beg you to please start creating some stable strains of LSD and MDMA making bacteria! The future of drugs depends on it.