Science inches closer to 'home brew' opiates; some call for controls

Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

About a month ago, researchers and policymakers started fretting about a nightmare scenario for drug enforcement: the possibility that the impending invention of morphine-producing yeast could make it easy for many people to start manufacturing highly addictive opiates.

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