Engineered Yeast Produce Hyoscyamine and Scopolamine

Successful production of medicinal compounds from plants depends on weather and growing seasons, potentially making supply chains vulnerable to uncontrollable forces. One way around such challenges is to use microorganisms as factories to make the compounds instead.

Read the article at: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/synthetic-biology/Engineered-yeast-produce-hyoscyamine-scopolamine/98/i34