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Pharmacofiles is Moving
I hope everyone who enjoys this blog will join me at my new site. It will be hosted by google, but I do not have an address yet. Check back tomorrow for my new location. Neil...
Microbial Defenses
My post two days ago served as an introduction to antibiotics and the problem of microbial resistance to treatment with antibiotics. Today’s post takes the next logical step and describes the variou...
Naturopathic Medicine Works…Sometimes
Many of the drugs used today have their origins in naturopathy. The historical record is full of people chewing bark, boiling leaves, munching berries, or partaking of nature’s pharmacy in other way...
Medicine from the Pacific Yew
As discussed in the two previous posts, plants have been a source of several drugs used in the treatment of cancer. Colchicine is isolated from the autumn crocus and today is primarily used to treat g...
Medicine from the Pit Viper
Besides its use in antivenin production, venom is not often used as a source of medicine. Often venom and other poisonous compounds from animals are more useful as experimental tools. For example, tet...
Fire Ant Venom
I remember a scene from the movie Them of a little girl who would not talk after seeing her family killed. Under questioning by the police, she finally screamed, “Them!” “Them,” referred to gi...
Erythropoietin as an Antidepressant
The recent release of the Mitchell Report concerning the use of steroids by baseball players has put the use of performance-enhancing substances by athletes in the spotlight. Erythropoietin is one suc...
Gravitation: Gravitation and Circular Motion
Consider a satellite moving in a circular orbit of radius r around a planet. The gravitational force provides the required centripetal force. F = (GMm)/r2 = mrω2 therefore, (GM)/r2 = rω2...
Wide Angled Views of Internals Using Tiny Probe
An ultrasound probe about the size of a grain of rice that could offer panoramic views from inside the human body is being tested by US researchers. They say it could be threaded through blood vessels...
New Car Paint May Change Colors Instantly
One of the hardest decisions when picking a new car is choosing the right color but the day when cars will be available in multiple colors could be here sooner than you think. Scientists have develope...
New Theory of Everything Seems Deficient
via Chris Lee at ArsTechnica The New Scientist must hire someone to trawl through the arXiv in the hopes of getting the science news one step ahead of everyone else. Unfortunately, its record for di...
Supernova May Have Caused Minor Extinction on Earth
It is the oldest telescope in the world - and it lies at the bottom of the ocean. Ancient sea floor sediments have revealed that a supernova exploded during the Pliocene era and may have caused a mino...
Fire Resistant Paint From Nanotechnology
Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Department of Chemistry have found a way of replacing the soap used to stabilize latex emulsion paints with nanotech sized clay armour that can create ...
Topic: Sildenafil (Viagra)
Sildenafil citrate, which has the brand name Viagra, was developed in the mid 1980s as a treatment for angina and hypertension. Early clinical trials showed that sildenafil failed to relieve angina, b...
New Fuel Cell More Efficient
HOUSTON, October 29, 2007 – The average price for all types of gasoline is holding steady around $2.95 per gallon nationwide, but the pain [...]...
Topic: Pharmacogenetics
Receptors, enzymes, and other proteins are involved in the body’s response to drugs. The structure and function of these proteins can be altered by mutations in the genes encoding them. Mutations in...
Biology: Water
Water is vital for the existence of life for two reasons: (a) It is an essential constituent of living cells (b) It provides an environment for aquatic life Water has quite unusual properties due to 3...
The Zombie Apocolypse: 5 Reasons it Could Happen
Cracked.com posted an awesome list of 5 reasons a zombie apocalypse could happen. Click here to visit the list....
Growing Eyeballs May Soon Be Possible
A genetic switch that gives tadpoles three eyes could allow stem-cell scientists to eventually grow human eyeballs or at least create replacement parts needed for repair jobs. If scientists could gro...
Top 10 Deadliest Animals On Earth
GreenEnvironment has an awesome top 10 list of the deadliest animals on earth. See it by clicking here....
Housewife to Debunk Theory of Relativity
A woman and her husband, the director, plan to film a documentary called Einstein Wrong where they challenge Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. After seeing the following trailer, it doesn’...
Scientists Developing Artificial Nerves
University of Manchester researchers have transformed fat tissue stem cells into nerve cells - and now plan to develop an artificial nerve that will bring damaged limbs and organs back to life. In a s...
Black Holes
The bright dot near the center was seen to flicker and brighten dramatically for a few minutes. Many astronomers believe this provides additional evidence that a black hole does indeed reside ...
Chemistry: Titration
Titration is the addition of an acidic solution to a basic solution or when you add a basic solution to an acidic solution. Titrations are used to determine the concentration of acids or bases in so...
An Overview of Matrix Mechanics
Because of Heisenberg’s assertion regarding the commutation relation between certain variables it is obvious that the properties of particles such as position and momentum can no longer be repre...
Some Anti-’Green’ Factoids
Treehugger posted some disturbing ‘anti-green’ facts: Here’s a herd of facts and figures to keep the ecology-minded number-fumbler up to speed. Energy used in hosting one eBay auctio...
Scientist Believes ‘Hypertime’ to be Link Between General Relativity and Quantum Theory
Could “hypertime” help develop a theory of everything? Roger Highfield reports A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we...
German Scientist Wins Chemistry Nobel Prize For Work In Surface Chemistry
by Ian Sample A German scientist whose work explained rusting iron, the vanishing ozone layer and how to make clean car exhausts celebrates his 71st birthday today as the latest wi...
Hilary Clinton’s Plan to “End War On Science”
I am definitely not endorsing her but here is an excerpt from her Hillary will restore the federal government’s commitment to science by: Rescinding the ban on ethical embryonic stem cell researc...
A Long Lost Text By Achimedes Found, Contains Some Work On Calculus
Julie J. Rehmeyer reports: For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and conto...
