Opiate recipe. Immigration policies.
Concordia in the news
Posted on May 19, 2015
Researchers in the news
The scholarly work of Concordia faculty and researchers informs and improves society on many issues that affect our daily lives. Visit the Research section to read news stories involving research at Concordia, or read the most recent items here:
- More than 200 general and specialized news outlets worldwide are reporting on collaborative research fromConcordia and University of California, Berkeley on the creation of genetically-modified yeast that can turn sugar into opiate drugs, including codeine, morphine and oxycodone, without the use of poppies. Certain of the articles warn of the dangers inherent in the potential for home manufacture of controlled substances. Vincent Martin, professor in the Department of Biology, is a co-author of the study, published in the journals Nature Chemical Biology and PLOS. The following is a sampling of the reports now circulating, many of which quote Martin: The Globe and Mail, La Presse.ca, the Montreal Gazette, The New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS News Hour, MSN News India, Journal Métro, Le Journal Québec, Top Santé, 98,5 FM, cbc.ca, ctvnews.ca, Belfast Telegraph, International Business Times (UK), The Sunday Times (behind a paywall), The Guardian, Laboratory Equipment, Medical Daily, Wired, Drug Discovery and Development, Raw Story, Engadget, Western Daily Press, Capital Wired, Sky News, Science 2.0, Science, The Star (UK),Northamptonshire Telegraph, R&D Mag, Business Insider Australia and hundreds others.
- A related story appears in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT News focusing on the legal oversight issues raised by the potential for homemade opiates.The article is reprised by (e) Science News.
- Mireille Paquet, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, is interviewed on Radio Canada International's English service about Concordia's Centre for the Evaluation of Immigration Policies (CEPI), which she co-founded. CEPI conducts research on immigration-related public policies. Listen to the interview.
