An extropian company called "Applied Molecular Evolution" have shipped a designer molecule that neutralizes cocaine in the bloodstream.
The researchers developed AME-359 by tweaking a protein to create an optimized version of an enzyme that's common and present in all humans.
"It's a scavenger enzyme (that) goes around the body chewing up a bunch of stuff, but not particularly well," Bloch said. "We're engineering part of the human body to do something a lot better that it was originally meant to do."
