#Cannabis: "Compared with modern enzymes, the reconstructed ancestors were easier to produce in microbes like yeast cells, the team found. That's relevant given the growing focus on biotechnological rather than botanical methods of #cannabinoid production.
"What once seemedevolutionarily 'unfinished' turns out to be highly useful," says van Velzen.
#CBC, for example, is a cannabinoid reported to have #antiinflammatory and #analgesic properties, yet modern cannabis plants don't produce much of it."
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-resurrected-extinct-cannabis-enzymes-and-traced-the-drugs-origins