By Donald G. McNeil, Jr. - The New York Times - Aug. 13, 2015
Excerpts:
. . . promises to make the creation of important chemicals — in this case painkillers and cough suppressants — cheaper and more predictable than using poppies. . . .
. . . In one major advance more than a decade ago scientists in Berkeley added multiple genes to yeast until it produced a precursor to artemisinin, the most effective modern malaria drug, which previously had to be grown in sweet wormwood shrubs.
Much of the world’s artemisinin is now produced in bioengineered yeast. . . .
[Full article at link above.]
Poster's notes: Artemisinin is also used to treat BABESIA, a very common tick borne infection that often travels with lyme.
Also of note, some yeasts / fungi are good guys. Not talking here about Candida or opportunist & overpowering strains. But also not talking about the actual yeasts - these are being tweaked to become something very different than what they were before. Pretty cool and promising.
Many kinds of fungi / medical mushrooms have a wide variety of uses. -
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- While not the same thing as discussed in article, this comes to mind just as a good FYI of a good yeast:
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