I don’t get this one. halp pls
Recently, some unique yeast has been developed to turn sugar into a lucrative chemical.
Some guy before the dawn of writing also discovered yeast turns sugar into a lucrative chemical - alcohol!
“lucrative chemical” do you have any idea how little that narrows it down!?
I understand the chemical process. Everything else is where I’m lost.
Well you can edit the yeast to manufacture all kinds of organic chemicals.
From the previous time I heard this they had a yeast strain that produced some sort of opioid. So you can probably see how that would be valuable, if you had a strain of yeast which you can replicate endlessly and have them transform sugar into pharmaceuticals.
And opioids are quite a simple thing. I’ve no idea what they’re referring to with this specific thing, the opioid thing was some years ago.
Aircraft radar coolant, you say?
(Soviet aircraft would often use pure (drinking) alcohol to cool aircraft radars. There was quite a large issue of air crews stealing the coolant…)
