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If you have the opportunity, go tour an Anheuser-Busch production facility. They are the perfect demonstration of operating on a massive scale with yeast, what
by mey 11y ago
If you have the opportunity, go tour an Anheuser-Busch production facility. They are the perfect demonstration of operating on a massive scale with yeast, what ever you feel about their end product. Will this change the world? No. Will is make it possible to drastically reduce the cost of producing these compounds on an industrial scale? With what's described in the article? No, because it still requires specially prepared source chemicals.
"Still, it’s an enormous challenge to modify yeast to synthesize THC or cannabidiol from raw materials like sugar; the current strains in Dr. Kayser’s laboratory are capable of only the final stage of the synthesis. Ultimately, biochemists may need to insert more than a dozen genes into the yeast."
If they solve the above, then it will become interesting, and I'm sure they are rushing headlong to solve it.
- warmwaffles 11y agoThey will learn from these experiments and if possible be able to create other compounds. I don't think the market for THC compounds is large enough to justify a massive yeast production, but if they were able to produce more than just THC with the yeast alone, it may be worth it.
- Kalium 11y agoMicrobial chemical factories. Now there's a hell of a pharmaceutical future. Combine with GMOs and CRISPR-CAS9... Holy crap.
- nitrogen 11y agoIt's actually a pharmaceutical present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine#Synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine#Synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin#Synthesis_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin#Synthesis_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering#Industrial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering#Industrial