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Rewiring yeast for drug synthesis

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Metabolic engineering on a grand scale has produced yeast that can synthesize hydrocortisone.

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  2. professor, Wolfson Laboratory of P450 Biodiversity, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

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Kelly, D., Kelly, S. Rewiring yeast for drug synthesis. Nat Biotechnol 21, 133–134 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0203-133

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