{"id":149371,"date":"2022-11-03T01:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/cloned-cannabis-cells-with-12-times-more-potency-are-grown-in-israeli-bioreactor"},"modified":"2022-11-03T01:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:23:13","slug":"cloned-cannabis-cells-with-12-times-more-potency-are-grown-in-israeli-bioreactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/cloned-cannabis-cells-with-12-times-more-potency-are-grown-in-israeli-bioreactor","title":{"rendered":"Cloned cannabis cells with 12 times more potency are grown in Israeli bioreactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cloned-cannabis-cells-with-12-times-more-potency-are-grown-in-israeli-bioreactor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe grow them in huge bioreactors in just three weeks \u2014 while regular cannabis takes 14 to 23 weeks,\u201d Sobel said. \u201cOur tech can also significantly increase the levels of active ingredients, as a percent of the weight, versus what is found normally in the plant.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An Israeli company has cloned hemp cells and used a bioreactor to grow them into a substance with all the active compounds of cannabis \u2014 and 12 times the potency.<\/p>\n<p>BioHarvest Sciences says the breakthrough could make the medical benefits of cannabis available in cheaper, cleaner and greener form. It has started applying for the necessary licenses to manufacture and sell its product for medical use in Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t grow the plant at all,\u201d BioHarvest CEO Ilan Sobel told The Times of Israel. Instead, the process involves \u201creplicating\u201d cells taken from a hemp plant in big tanks called bioreactors to produce huge numbers of identical cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe grow them in huge bioreactors in just three weeks \u2014 while regular cannabis takes 14 to 23 weeks,\u201d Sobel said. \u201cOur tech can also significantly increase the levels of active ingredients, as a percent of the weight, versus what is found normally in the plant.\u201d An Israeli company has cloned hemp cells and used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}