Scientists Hacked Beer Yeast To Produce CBD and THC

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Scientists Hacked Beer Yeast To Produce CBD and THC
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Produced by Cat Wolinski / @beeraffair
Updated on 2019-02-28

Scientists are turning brewers yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) into tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive compound found in cannabis, and cannabidiol (CBD), the legal compound gaining popularity in a variety of food, beverage, and health products.

The recent discovery, reported in Nature on Wednesday, is nothing short of a miracle. The process involves turning a sugar found in brewers yeast, galactose, into cannabinoid compounds. The goal of the research is to enable THC and CBD production without plant-based cultivation.

Although previous research has been done on the subject with a similar aim, this study is the first to prove the transformation can happen inside a single cell, “which is cool,” Kevin Chen, chief executive of Hyasynth Bio in Montreal, Canada, said. Hyasynth is one of 10 or more companies “working to produce cannabinoids in engineered yeast, bacteria, or algae,” Nature reports.

The bio-hack could change the cannabinoid marketplace, allowing less expensive production of compounds such as CBD and THC that is commercially viable to sell to pharmaceutical companies and the public.

Beer yeast may be the most exciting way to create cannabinoids we’ve heard of, but it’s not the only one: A research team at the University of California, Los Angeles engineered a process for turning sugar into CBD without the transformation needing to occur in the cell. Meanwhile, University of California, Berkeley biologist Jay Keasling and his team said the beer yeast cell transformation required “16 genetic modifications.”

Hopes are high for THC and CBD made from beer yeast, but analysts predict the process won’t be cost effective for at least 18 months to two years.

https://vinepair.com/booze-news/scientists-hack-beer-yeast-cbd-thc/
 
2RedEyes because they can't make as much money if it's nature and something everyone can grow! ..they will forever continue to look for ways to make money out of this by creating a product you can only purchase.
 
Well they not getting my money...I use my yeast to ferment beer...
 
Only in the many MANY varied marijuana varieties have there been such a collection of Terpenes. One thing to alter a simple sugar and another to see all the varied, and I do mean VARIED amounts and kinds of Terpenes that are in the flower of all these varieties.
 

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