Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are increasingly in demand for research and medical uses
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Yeah, was just surprised tobacco is a common base for experiments.

    And that explains why it’s used here, it’s never going to be at scale

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      6 hours ago

      Tobacco industry funded a huge amount of molecular biology in transgenic tobacco and it ended up being a well understood plant model system to express anything.