@TiceRichard Weapons grade nonsense. If you genuinely think this you should never be an energy spokesperson for any politics party and if you don’t your lying with motive
We had 65% spare gas generation capacity available today with reactors down for maintenance
There was no shortage
Scientists have resurrected "extinct" enzymes from ancient cannabis ancestors that lived millions of years ago, opening the door to more powerful anti-inflammatory treatments and dramatically cheaper drug production.
A team at Wageningen University in the Netherlands used ancestral sequence reconstruction—a cutting-edge technique that reconstructs the genetic history of a species—to revive long-lost enzymes from the prehistoric relatives of the cannabis plant.
Unlike modern cannabis, which relies on highly specialized enzymes to produce specific cannabinoids such as THC or CBD, these ancient enzymes were remarkably versatile ("promiscuous"). They could generate a wide range of cannabinoids at once, revealing how early cannabis plants likely evolved sophisticated chemical defenses against ancient pests and diseases.
The breakthrough has major implications for medicine and biotechnology. One resurrected enzyme proved exceptionally efficient at producing CBC (cannabichromene)—a cannabinoid prized for its potent anti-inflammatory effects but scarce in today's strains. By reintroducing these ancient genes into modern plants or using them in microbial fermentation systems, researchers aim to develop far more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective ways to produce therapeutic cannabinoids.
This work not only sheds new light on the evolutionary origins of cannabinoids but also provides a powerful new toolkit for engineering the next generation of affordable, high-potency plant-derived medicines.
[Villard C, Baser I, van de Peppel AC, Cankar K, Schranz ME, van Velzen R., "Resurrected Ancestral Cannabis Enzymes Unveil the Origin and Functional Evolution of Cannabinoid Synthases", Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2025 Dec 26. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1111/pbi.70475]