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its entirely possible and people are already working on expanding access to certain medications with that. transformed e. coli and yeast are already used industrially to produce medications like insulin (a plasmid carrying the human insulin gene is forced into e. coli). theoretically you could do this with anything, just insert the human gene for it into some bacteria or yeast and they become little factories for it.