Genetically-engineered opiates could lead to illicit 'home-brewed' heroin, scientists warn

The chemical precursors for making morphine and heroin have been produced by genetically-engineered microbes rather than poppy plants for the first time, raising the prospect that the most powerful painkillers known to science could be made from scratch in the lab.
Source: The Independent - Science - Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news