FOR THE past four billion years or so the only way for life on Earth to produce a sequence of DNA—a gene—was by copying a sequence it already had to hand. Sometimes the gene would be damaged or scrambled, the copying imperfect or undertaken repeatedly. From that raw material arose the glories of natural selection. […]
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Demetrix Obtains Exclusive Intellectual Property Use
Demetrix obtains exclusive use of key intellectual property enabling the cost-effective production of cannabinoids using fermentation EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Demetrix, Inc., a company with world-class expertise in producing nature’s ingredients using fermentation, today announced entry into an exclusive licensing agreement with University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The license provides access […]
Scientists Develop Yeast That Brews THC and CBD
It’s similar to the process of brewing beer — but instead of alcohol, it makes the active chemical compounds found in pot. Yeast is sort of like the John C. Reilly of the natural world: it’s one of the hardest-working funguses out there (it gives us carbs! And beer!) but it doesn’t get nearly as much credit […]
A Cannabis High, No Plant Required
How Cannabis Active Ingredients are Produced Through Fermentation Scientists think they can re-create marijuana’s active ingredients with brewer’s yeast. Fermentation-powered brewing has been getting people drunk for thousands of years. Soon, it could be getting them high, too. In research announced on Wednesday by the University of California at Berkeley, a team of synthetic biologists […]
Yeast Can Brew the Active Ingredients in Cannabis
Genes from the cannabis plant have been added to yeast strains to enable them to make cannabinoids, key chemicals from the plant that have therapeutic value. The “cannayeasts” should make it possible to turn sugar into pure forms of many different cannabinoids, and to do so more cheaply and with less environmental damage than farming. […]
Yeast Produce Low-cost, High-Quality Cannabinoids
University of California, Berkeley, synthetic biologists have engineered brewer’s yeast to produce marijuana’s main ingredients — mind-altering THC and non-psychoactive CBD — as well as novel cannabinoids not found in the plant itself. Read the full article HERE