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Twerck t1_j47408z wrote

Reply to comment by PEVEI in where does epinephrine comes from? The one used for people with allergies because Google only says It comes from glands so I don't understand if it's donated or sintethized by other means. by SALAMI_21

Scientists are working on lab-grown beef. I wonder if lab-grown adrenal glands would be a viable alternative to how it's done today

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Erathen t1_j47ood5 wrote

>I wonder if lab-grown adrenal glands would be a viable alternative to how it's done today

We don't get adrenaline from animals anymore. We haven't since around 1906 when Friedrich Stolz figured out how to synthesize from adrenalone

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