Illegal Drugs (I: Morphine)

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(1) Synthetic biology Only Connect; Home-brewed heroin may soon be in the works
(“the current edition of the journal may contain a paper describing a technology that could completely disrupt their [drug barons’ and poppy farmers’] business”)

Note: It is not published in print yet--only publishing online in advance. See next.

(2) Kenneth A Oye, J Chappell H Lawson and Tania Bubela, Drugs: Regulate 'Home-Brew' Opiates. nATURE, mAY 18, 2915 (in the Comment section).
www.nature.com/news/drugs-regulate-home-brew-opiates-1.17563
(genetically engineered yeast “that converts glucose to morphine”)

Note:
(a) Only read the first two paragraphs and view the graphic whose heading is “Brewing Bad”--a wordplay on a TV series “Breaking Bad.”

(b)
(i) morphine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine
("first isolated between 1803 and 1805 by Friedrich Sertürner [a German]. This is generally believed to be the first isolation of a active ingredient from a plant. * * * Morphine is the most abundant opiate found in opium, the dried latex extracted by shallowly scoring the unripe seedpods of the Papaver somniferum poppy”)
(ii) morphine
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=morphine
(“name coined by German apothecary Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1840) in reference to Latin Morpheus, Ovid's name for the god of dreams, from Greek morphe ‘form, shape, beauty, outward appearance’ ")
(iii) Morpheus (mythology)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheus_(mythology)

(c) heroin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin
(originally synthesized by [an Englishman] CR Alder Wright in 1874 by adding two acetyl groups to the molecule morphine, which is found naturally in the opium poppy; section 7.1 Etymology)