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Biobased products News 25 Sep 2020
Yeast metabolically engineered to produce the medicinal tropane alkaloids [Full subscriber]
Researchers at Stanford University report the first successful microbial biosynthesis of the tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine and scopolamine, a class of neuromuscular blockers naturally found in plants in the nightshade family.… Login to continue
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