Researchers engineer yeast to manufacture complex medicine | News Center | Stanford Medicine

The only source of noscapine, a cough suppressant with potential anti-cancer properties, is opium poppies. Yet Stanford bioengineers have found a new way of producing the drug: reconstructing its biosynthetic pathway in yeast.
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