Moving to Mars? - Life Lab, Pt 2
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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How to Make Drugs From Plants
We need organisms that can produce these molecules on demands. So i con go to a greenhouse instead of a drug store. And there's two ways to make that happen. You can imagine making it in the plant so that you can extract it and make pills out of it. Or you can have the plant be edible, so you coul eat the plant and get the drug directly. It's not just food that can do double duty. We also make bacteria that are photo synthetic and can reuse carbon dioxide and things like that that clean your air, but they'll also make these drugs for you. Yes, it is really wild. I don't know how that would taste, i guess.
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