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A lot of pharmaceutical production is moving from complex chemical processes to utilizing genetically modified microorganisms to produce the substances more or less directly. This makes it about as complex as a modern beer brewery.
Do any beer breweries genetically engineer their yeast? Honest question. I was gonna use that question to counter you but then I realized I wouldn't be surprised if some already do, and IMO that would be pretty cool!
They usually depend on yeast strains that have been optimized with traditional selection methods for centuries, so there is little need to modify them further. But modern genetic methods are used to monitor and prevent unwanted further mutations AFAIK.
how on earth is making a GMO as simple are brewing beer?!
I cant tell if ur joking or being serious
I have a genetics researcher in the family that brews beer as a hobby, who would have a field day replying to this comment! Unfortunately I posses knowledge of neither but I feel like the answer would not be simple or straight-forward.
Once you have the genetically modified organisms obviously. But making the genetic modifications doesn't need a very complex setup either, a typical university research lab is sufficiently equipped to do so.
I think I actually read something similar about people doing it in garages(not that I recommend it) the article was around COVID so it was about home made bio weapon. There are kits online and I have no illusion that tomorrow this will produce industrial quantities insulin(that's why the price is so high right RIGHT?) but the idea may be not so far fetched as it initially sounds.