# The toad gets a break: Weizmann engineered tobacco to produce five psychedelics at once

- slug: the-toad-gets-a-break-weizmann-engineered-tobacco-to-produce-five-psychedelics-at-once
- date: 2026-04-04
- category: Biotech & Life Sciences

The Sonoran Desert toad is in decline. So Weizmann Institute researchers put its psychedelic chemistry into tobacco instead — and used AlphaFold3 to make it actually work.

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