Drugs: Regulate 'home-brew' opiates

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The research community and the public require a fast, flexible response to the synthesis of morphine by engineered yeasts, urge Kenneth Oye, Tania Bubela and J. Chappell H. Lawson.

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  1. Kenneth A. Oye and J. Chappell H. Lawson are associate professors in the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

    Kenneth A. Oye & J. Chappell H. Lawson

  2. Tania Bubela is professor and associate dean for research at the School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.,

    Tania Bubela

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  1. Kenneth A. Oye
  2. J. Chappell H. Lawson
  3. Tania Bubela

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Oye, K., Lawson, J. & Bubela, T. Drugs: Regulate 'home-brew' opiates. Nature 521, 281–283 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/521281a

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