Researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have identified a new method of producing life-saving antidotes using a microorganism discovered in a waste stream associated with the processing of opium poppy. This green chemistry process has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of the antidote drugs as well as decrease chemicals currently used that result in large amounts of harmful waste. Read the full story here.
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Scientists pursue a cleaner way to produce life-saving opiate treatments
August 28, 2019