POPPY’S RECIPE A team has found two chemical routes for making morphine from thebaine in the opium poppy (left). In both cases the proteins T60DM and C0DM remove chemical decorations called ...

Opioids’ molecular magic unmasked. First 3-D views show how ... Two new snapshots show how cellular proteins lasso molecules in the opium family, revealing the 3-D structure of such pairings for ...

For compounds with relatively simple chemical structures, such as aspirin, ... In nature, the opium poppy has enzymes that are able to synthesise complex molecule structures in a cell.