{"id":72021,"date":"2017-08-20T05:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T12:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-are-finally-set-to-mass-produce-the-active-compound-found-in-magic-mushrooms"},"modified":"2017-08-20T05:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T12:28:38","slug":"scientists-are-finally-set-to-mass-produce-the-active-compound-found-in-magic-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/scientists-are-finally-set-to-mass-produce-the-active-compound-found-in-magic-mushrooms","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Finally Set to Mass-Produce The Active Compound Found in Magic Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-finally-set-to-mass-produce-the-active-compound-found-in-magic-mushrooms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 60 years scientists have known the chemical responsible for magic mushrooms\u2019 psychedelic reputation is a compound called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psilocybin\">psilocybin<\/a>. What we haven\u2019t known is the biochemical pathway behind this famous hallucinogen.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to now tick that one off your chemistry bucket-list. German researchers have identified four key enzymes involved in making the chemical, potentially setting the stage for mass production of a promising pharmaceutical.<\/p>\n<p>Psilocybin was first identified by the Swiss scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Hofmann\">Albert Hofmann<\/a> way back in 1959, but has only recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/therapy-for-depression-gets-a-significant-boost-when-combined-with-psilocybin\">re-entered the spotlight<\/a> as a safe way to treat conditions related to anxiety, depression, and addiction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-way-is-set-for-mass-producing-the-psilocybin-in-magic-mushrooms\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-way-is-set-for-mass-producin...-mushrooms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly 60 years scientists have known the chemical responsible for magic mushrooms\u2019 psychedelic reputation is a compound called psilocybin. What we haven\u2019t known is the biochemical pathway behind this famous hallucinogen. Feel free to now tick that one off your chemistry bucket-list. German researchers have identified four key enzymes involved in making the chemical, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72021","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}