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Moving a plant's chemistry into a vat is now routine. Making it cheaper than the plant is not

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Moving a plant's chemistry into a vat is now routine. Making it cheaper than the plant is not

9 Sept 2026 · 8 min read

Engineering yeast to make a molecule that only a plant used to make means installing an entire chemical assembly line inside a living cell. The famous cases show it works — and one of the most celebrated was shut down because a crop got cheaper.

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