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I wonder how long it'll take until there are yeast cultures to produce various psychoactive/scheduled substances on the dark web. https://news.stanford.edu/202

by sva_ 4y ago

I wonder how long it'll take until there are yeast cultures to produce various psychoactive/scheduled substances on the dark web. https://news.stanford.edu/2020/09/02/scientists-turn-yeast-cells-drug-factories/ https://news.stanford.edu/2020/09/02/scientists-turn-yeast-c...

giantg2 4y ago
That seems like a bad idea. Just waiting for the escape and autobrewery syndrome
- antupis 4y ago
  somebody needs to make movie about that.
  - xena 4y ago
    I'm just imagining Cocaine Bear 2 being made about this.
  - TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
    No movie I know of, but the worms in this DF Mod: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iE0iHVChHeg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iE0iHVChHeg
- manmal 4y ago
  Yeast/mold has been used for production of all kinds of stuff that is problematic in large quantities.
- HN_is_for_gemes 4y ago
  [dead]
- jobs_throwaway 4y ago
  Then we just need DIY testing kits for unintended byproducts
- icepat 4y ago
  The body desensitises to tryptamines very rapidly. It´d be unpleasant at the start, but eventually would be unnoticeable.
flobosg 4y ago
There have been efforts in the last decade to engineer yeast to produce lysergic acid (https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scientists-make-lsd-from-microbes https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/jun/21/scienti...). Apparently, a group managed to introduce the complete pathway and published an article last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28386-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28386-6
- _joel 4y ago
  That'd be some interesting beer
  - hersko 4y ago
    Or bread!
  - red-iron-pine 4y ago
    You can pop mushrooms and sip an IPA, same rough idea. Standard Friday night in Denver, really.