Cannabis Production is Now Possible Through Yeast A peer-reviewed paper published today reveals that scientists in Berkeley have created a strain of yeast that can produce cannabinoids. A new report in the renowned scientific journal Nature details how synthetic biologists at the University of California Berkeley have genetically engineered yeast that can produce marijuana’s main […]
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Scientists Just Produced Cannabis Compounds in a Lab
Lab-made Marijuana is Coming In a move that’s expected to transform the marijuana and pharmaceutical industries, scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced on Wednesday that they had for the first time created cannabis compounds in a lab, instead of by harvesting them from a plant. Read the full article HERE
THC and CBD Produced with Genetically Engineered Yeast
Marijuana, despite its historical connections to the environment-loving counterculture movement of the 1960s, can be an extremely environmentally-damaging plant. Research estimates that indoor cannabis cultivation accounts for 1% of all electricity use across the US; growing cannabis outdoors often involves high levels of pesticides; and marijuana needs so much water, the plants are draining rivers […]
Scientists brew cannabis using hacked beer yeast
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. Read the full article HERE
GM Yeast Generates Known and Novel Marijuana Compounds
If you had to pick a favorite microbe, a good candidate would be Saccharomyces cerevisiae, better known as brewer’s yeast, which transforms grape juice into wine, grain mash into beer and dough into bread. Over the past few decades scientists have hacked the yeast’s genome to make it produce less delectable but arguably more important […]
The Yeast That Can be Used to Brew Cannabis, Not Beer
Scientists Develop GM Strain That Can Produce Cannabinoid Compounds with Addition of Sugar Scientists in California have developed a strain of yeast that can be used to brew cannabis extract rather than beer. With just the addition of sugar, the genetically modified yeast fermented to produce pure cannabinoid compounds including mind-altering THC and the non-psychoactive […]