Next step: homemade heroin
Scientists’ discovery opens door toward do-it-yourself morphine without poppies, and threat of wider abuse
Published: June 1, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists have figured out all the steps to make morphine and similar painkillers without using opium poppies, opening the door for home-...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LOS ANGELES
Emerging Technologies
University of Alberta
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California
Stanford University
technology advancing
chemical
Center for International Security and Cooperation
University of California
Berkeley
University of Alberta in Canada
Stanford University
UC Berkeley
Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University
Megan Palmer
Kenneth Oye
John Dueber
lead author
director
Alberta
California
Massachusetts
the journal Nature
Nature Chemical Biology

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