Scientists Gene Hack Random Plant to Grow Cocaine

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Has science finally gone too far?

In what's surely exciting news for some of you out there, scientists in China claim to have genetically modified an obscure plant to produce cocaine in its leaves., researchers have been trying to determine how the coca plant — the flora from which the drug cocaine is derived — produces the party-friendly compound for decades.

Excitingly, that missing link is exactly what the scientists, who hail from Kunming Institute of Botany in China, say they were able to unveil. As detailed in a new, the researchers were able to identify two previously unknown enzymes — called EnCYP81AN15 and EnMT4 — in the cocaine production line., a close relative of the tobacco plant, to grow the enzymes.

 

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its not the scientists it's those who value only profit and contort the science for that

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