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Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine
PvtVoid writes: The New York times reports that newly developed yeast strains will soon make it possible to create morphine from fermentation of sugar. While no one has claimed to make morphine in lab from scratch yet, concerns are already being raised about potential abuse. According to the Times article: "This rapid progress in synthetic biology has set off a debate about how — and whether — to regulate it. Dr. Oye and other experts said this week in a commentary in Nature Chemical Biology that drug-regulatory authorities are ill prepared to control a process that will benefit the heroin trade much more than the prescription painkiller industry. The world should take steps to head that off, they argue, by locking up the bioengineered yeast strains and restricting access to the DNA that would let drug cartels reproduce them.
Fun fact: English is not a dead language. Proper usage shifts over time.
Uh, proper usage? Of the word rigmarole?
You mean when we stopped calling it balderdash because it was too old-fashioned, or when we stopped calling it a clusterfuck due to the overly protective censors?
Bullshit words deserve their ongoing confusion, and belong in the Urban Dictionary and not much further.
Fun fact, doesn't change the fact that its spelled wrong.
"Spelled" is actually "spelt," unless you subscribe to the philosophy that people living in a secondary English colony should be allowed to introduce their own spellings of words. In which case, being flusterful at misspellings on the internet would be silly.