Can This Silicon Valley Startup Bioengineer A Less Addictive Opioid?
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Back in 2015, a 40-year-old synthetic biologist named Christina Smolke, along with a small team of researchers at Stanford, made a huge discovery. They proved that a genetically engineered yeast could produce opioid molecules…