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In the News: Washington Post

How Johnson & Johnson companies used a ‘super poppy’ to make narcotics for America’s most abused opioid pills (Peter Facchini)

A new gene discovery by a team of University of Calgary researchers has the potential to help yield safer, less expensive synthetic opioid pharmaceuticals. Photos by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary

UCalgary-based team takes big step toward producing safer, less expensive pain-killing medications

A University of Calgary-led research team, including Xue Chen, Peter Facchini, Jillian Hagel and Limei Chang, has discovered the gene for a new protein crucial for naturally and efficiently producing a compound in opium poppy plants used to make opiate pain-killing drugs.

Opium poppy plants give up their genetic secrets to UCalgary-led team

Researchers identify how opium poppies synthesize promising new drug

Researchers find enzymes are multitasking in opium poppy