Alkaloids produced by genetically engineered yeast
Date: 13.8.2008
Ready access to complex compounds will allow **pharmacological studies** of potential **painkillers**.
**Yeast** cells have been turned into **biological factories** that manufacture a range of **alkaloids** — naturally occurring chemical compounds such as morphine that contain nitrogen atoms and that often have useful pharmaceutical properties. The work opens the way to commercially producing previously unobtainable and potentially valuable alkaloids.
"Nature":[ http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080810/full/news.2008.1031.html?s=news_rss]
