Mutant poppy makes safer drugs
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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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US researchers have found a way to use an antibiotic to correct a flaw in cancer cells that allows them to avoid the normal death process.
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Scientists genetically modify goats to create a drug in their milk that protects against deadly nerve gases.
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A young Pakistani street performer and members of three related families have enabled scientists to make a genetic breakthrough that could lead to more effective painkillers.
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A next-generation leukemia pill  designed to help patients not cured by the successful drug  Gleevec works even better than doctors had hoped, researchers  said Sunday.
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Researchers say they have found a way to reverse resistance to one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs.
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The proposed laboratory experiments would speed the development of drugs that could treat smallpox.
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Scientists say they have found a safer way of controlling genes to treat disease.
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Scientists discover a new protein they believe could help develop much more effective medicines.
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Researchers who found a genetic  pattern that predicts who will be helped by a revolutionary new  lung cancer drug said on Monday they were looking for patients  to help them confirm their findings.
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Patients volunteering for early trials of experimental cancer drugs may be far safer today than their counterparts were a decade ago.
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A successful cancer-fighting drug may also damage the heart, although a researcher says leukemia patients who need Gleevec should not abandon it.
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An experimental lung cancer drug has extended patients' life expectancy by more than 50% in preliminary trials.
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A breast cancer drug could save 1,300 lives a year if more widely used in the UK, research suggests.
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Scientists in Dundee hope that gene research will aid efforts to reduce medication for cancer patients.
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U.S. scientists have discovered a gene that is the molecular mechanism that enables non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to halt the growth of cancer.
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Differences in the brain may increase the chances a person will take drugs, scientists say.