Biology & Life Sciences

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Chemistry World July 16, 2007 Karen Harries-Rees	Hallucinogenic Drug in the Clinic A trial to determine whether patients with anxiety relating to advanced-stage illnesses can be safely given LSD-assisted psychotherapy and whether it improves their anxiety symptoms has been approved by a Swiss ethics committee.
Chemistry World July 16, 2007 Karen Harries-Rees	Tasting Sour Flavours is Genetic Researchers have found that genes play a central role in the recognition of sour tastes but not in the recognition of saltiness. The findings could help identify the taste receptor that detects sourness in food.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Jena McGregor	The Business Brain In Close-Up Can neuroscience offer insights into the 'soft' art of leadership?
Chemistry World July 12, 2007 John Bonner	Aphids Defend Colony with Cabbage Chemistry Ladybirds bite off more than they can chew if they try to feed on aphids armed with a chemical weapon based on mustard-oil, researchers report.
Chemistry World July 12, 2007 Victoria Gill	Older Women Should Not Use HRT A long-term clinical trial into hormone replacement therapy has confirmed that HRT should not be prescribed to older women many years past menopause.
Chemistry World July 11, 2007 Victoria Gill	How to Make Worms Turn Researchers in the US have discovered an intriguing and fun dimension to the nervous system of nematode worms, enabling them to steer the tiny organisms 'like remote-controlled cars.'
Chemistry World July 10, 2007 Tom Westgate	Attosyringe Shows Potential Electrochemists have given hope to biologists who want to inject precise and tiny volumes of fluids into living cells. They have developed a syringe that delivers attolitre volumes.
Chemistry World July 9, 2007 Emma Baines	Smoking Cessation Drug Shows Promise for Alcohol Dependency A drug recently licensed as an aid to smoking cessation could also be used to treat alcohol addiction, US researchers have found.
Science News July 7, 2007 Janet Raloff	Concerns over Genistein, Part II -- Beyond the Heart Mice eating a diet laced with an estrogen-like constituent of soy display a puzzling variety of changes, some apparently good, some potentially bad.
Chemistry World July 6, 2007 Michael Gross	Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail.
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