Morphinefree Mutant Poppies: Novel plants make pharmaceutical ...
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A Tasmanian company has developed a poppy that produces a commercially useful drug precursor instead of full-fledged morphine, and an international research team has now reported how the plant does it.
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A secret long held by plants has been revealed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers.
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Australian marine scientists have joined up with an Austrian drug company to develop cancer-fighting medicines from chemicals found in sea sponges and ocean algae.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Food and Drug Administration is giving hope to children with Leukemia that don&#39;t respond to traditional treatments.
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The latest findings may expand the ways of generating customized stem cells for new treatments
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By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- Morphine, a potent painkiller typically derived from the opium poppy plant, appears to be made by the human body as well.    Small amounts of morphine have been found in animal tissue before, but researchers had assumed these traces came from environmental contamination, such as a diet...
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Spanish biotech company Zeltia (ZEL.MC: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Thursday its drug Yondelis had been granted orphan drug status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use on soft tissue ...
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The therapeutic power of flowers takes on new meaning with a Japanese gadget that turns plants into audio speakers.
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Scientists are discovering that the herb known as "diviner's sage" has psychotropic properties that could treat depression, pain and addiction. But corporate pharmas aren't interested, because they can't patent it.
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Scientists have discovered a poppy that does not produce addictive drugs - and are using it to make safer painkillers. Poppies are used to make the pharmaceuticals morphine and codeine, which act as painkillers
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A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines this past week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool
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THURSDAY, Feb 10 (HealthDay News) -- A compound derived from a rare South American plant shows promise as a treatment for breast cancer, according to a University of Virginia Health System study.
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The chemical compound in the  abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors  caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women's breast and  ovarian cancers, researchers found.
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NEW YORK  - Normal movement of a fertilized  egg to the womb depends in part on the proper functioning of  receptors for cannabis-like compounds in the fallopian tube,  researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report.
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A drug developed by Merck helps people lose weight by inducing an reverse-marijuana effect: decreasing appetite.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- A new screening technique to search for genes that change patients' response to cancer drugs and other medications has been developed by scientists at Washington University Medical Center.
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The chemical compound in the abortion pill RU-486 blocked formation in mice of breast tumors caused by a mutant gene blamed in many women's breast and ovarian cancers, researchers found.