Genetic reprogramming – the cellular machinery of yeast to create factories that convert sugars and amino acids into plant-based drugs
–Sheyashree Mondal, Amity University Kolkata Plants have always been used to cure ailments by chewing, brewed or rubbed on body. Pharmaceutical companies import these plants from specialized farms and extract their active chemical compounds to produce drugs like scopolamine, atropine. The factory-floor reprogramming of yeast has been carried out by the first author of the […]