Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a visit to the Bay Area on Monday.
In the morning, Blinken toured Antheia, a Menlo Park biotech lab that creates key pharmaceutical ingredients like thebaine, which is used in the production of Narcan.
Normally it takes fields of plants and two years to create thebaine. Antheia is able to create the same ingredient in two weeks using engineered yeast.
Blinken chose to highlight the company because he believes this kind of bio medical technology can help overcome supply chain issues that have led to medicine shortages nationwide.
Following his stop in Menlo Park, Blinken is scheduled to head to San Francisco where he will deliver the keynote at the RSA Conference and announce the rollout of the administration’s new International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy.
According to Politico, the country’s new cyberspace strategy will include the announcement of a new $50 million fund to help allies enhance their own cybersecurity efforts.
NBC Bay Area's Bob Redell has more in the video report above.
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