Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Wonders of Bread

Taking common bakers yeast and genetically engineering it has allowed scientists to create a drug, artemisinin, to treat malaria. Currently artemisinin is extracted from wormwood plants, the leaves dried and cured and the chemical extracted  . . . much like athelas which Aragorn went to great pains to find while in the wild and after Frodo had been stabbed by the Morgul blade.

Now it can be bioengineered from bread yeast. 


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2 comments:

jeff hallett said...

Aragorn could have opened a pharmaceutical company, made TON of money, and paid Sauron to move to a new neighborhood.

9:12 AM
Troll Lord said...

No orcs allowed. Gated community...wait, isn't Rivendale a gated community?

12:08 PM

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