Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in another plant, which could help people manufacture the drug for scientific study
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This isn’t exactly a “Simpsons did it”, but…
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Tomaccaine
Tim caine?
We did make a hybrid tomato/potato but that wasn’t exactly genetic modification it’s just grafting. It could be a great space saving technique though.
iirc if you graft tomato plants onto the potato roots both food crops suffer quality because of the energy being divided
Yeah that would make sense, still a neat experiment.
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