{"id":98157,"date":"2019-11-05T07:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/forget-growing-weed-make-yeast-spit-out-cbd-and-thc-instead"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:02:37","slug":"forget-growing-weed-make-yeast-spit-out-cbd-and-thc-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/forget-growing-weed-make-yeast-spit-out-cbd-and-thc-instead","title":{"rendered":"Forget Growing Weed\u2014Make Yeast Spit Out CBD and THC Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/forget-growing-weed-make-yeast-spit-out-cbd-and-thc-instead2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now researchers have turned to yeast to do something more improbable: manufacturing the cannabis compounds CBD and THC. By loading brewer\u2019s yeast with genes from the cannabis plant, they\u2019ve turned the miracle microbes into cannabinoid factories. It\u2019s a clever scheme in a larger movement to methodically pick apart and recreate marijuana\u2019s many compounds, to better understand the plant\u2019s true potential.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Yeast gives us beer and bread. Now researchers have engineered it to do something more improbable: manufacturing the cannabis compounds CBD and THC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now researchers have turned to yeast to do something more improbable: manufacturing the cannabis compounds CBD and THC. By loading brewer\u2019s yeast with genes from the cannabis plant, they\u2019ve turned the miracle microbes into cannabinoid factories. It\u2019s a clever scheme in a larger movement to methodically pick apart and recreate marijuana\u2019s many compounds, to better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98157","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}