Scientists brew cannabis using hacked beer yeast

Elie Dolgin • February 27, 2019

Researchers modify microbe to manufacture cannabis compounds including the psychoactive chemical THC.

The yeast that people have used for millennia to brew alcoholic drinks has now been engineered to produce cannabinoids — chemicals with medicinal and sometimes mind-altering properties found in cannabis.


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