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The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has published on their website their annual report about the world situation on drugs in 2010. In this report, the INCB has included the worrying recommendation towards governments to outlaw traditional plants such as Ayahuasca (a decoction made with botanicals like Banisteriopsis Caapi and Psychotria Viridis) and Tabernanthe Iboga among others, neglecting their important role as traditional medicine, as a sacrament and as therapeutic tool. These are the primary uses of these plants found in societies all over the world.
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February 6, 2012 9:03 PM
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Concept paper reviewing the implication of enzymes in the biosynthesis of cyclic terpenes and polyethers especially those implying kinetically disfavored routes.
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February 4, 2012 3:12 PM
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‘Deprotect’ is so soulless and mechanical. Words like the slightly erotic ‘denude’, the jubilant ‘emancipate’ or ‘liberate’ are much more evocative. Even ‘reveal’ or ‘unmask’ create an air of mystery and sophistication. Give yourself a pat on the back for every instance of ‘Hitherto’, ‘notwithstanding’, ‘inasmuch’, ‘heretofore’, 'forthwith', and ‘unbeknownst’ you manage to include in a paper.
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February 3, 2012 6:37 PM
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February 3, 2012 2:45 PM
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“It is difficult to have integrity in research if integrity in other aspects of life is questionable.”
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February 3, 2012 2:39 PM
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US indicators reveal challenges and opportunities as science momentum shifts to China. It is a mantra that plays readily to US competitive fears: Asia, led by China, is on track to displace the United States as the world’s science and technology powerhouse.
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February 2, 2012 7:44 PM
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Malaria, a devastating infectious disease caused by Plasmodium spp., leads to roughly 655,000 deaths per year, mostly of African children. To compound the problem, drug resistance has emerged to all classical antimalarials and may be emerging for artemisinin-based combination therapies. To address the need for new antimalarials with novel mechanisms, several groups carried out phenotypic screening campaigns to identify compounds inhibiting growth of the blood stages of Plasmodium falciparum. In this review, we describe the characterization of these compounds, explore currently ongoing strategies to develop lead molecules, and endorse the concept of a “malaria box” of publicly accessible active compounds. Pdf : http://download.cell.com/chemistry-biology/pdf/PIIS1074552112000178.pdf
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February 2, 2012 7:29 PM
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For many grad students, postdocs, and PIs, the lab in which they work represents a type of “home away from home,” replete with similar territorial issues, responsibilities, and associated “family dynamics.” And just as there are many different types of families, there are many different types of lab cultures. The environment may be competitive or it may be more collaborative. There may be ordered systems of sharing supplies and equipment, or perhaps, as in some families, anarchy reigns. Likewise, members of the “lab family” may enjoy each other’s company or spend as much time apart from each other as possible. Regardless of the type of culture, one always exists, so it behooves the PI to try to manage it.
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February 2, 2012 5:54 PM
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Stunning snapshots and posters in pdf.
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February 2, 2012 3:13 PM
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Peerage of Science is a web service for automatically controlled, standardized, rigorous, fully anonymous scientific peer review.
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February 2, 2012 3:00 PM
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How resveratrol benefits health a matter of debate. A la votre !
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February 2, 2012 12:40 PM
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A timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900.
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February 2, 2012 12:13 PM
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Learning by using the graphical language of organic chemistry.
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February 6, 2012 9:16 PM
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Roland D. Kersten at Moore's lab describes natural product peptidogenomics (NPP), a new MS-guided genome-mining method that connects the chemotypes of peptide natural products to their biosynthetic gene clusters by iteratively matching de novo tandem MS (MS(n)) structures to genomics-based structures following biosynthetic logic. Nature Chemical Biology7,794–802(2011) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.684 Moore's lab http://moorelab.ucsd.edu/
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February 4, 2012 10:31 PM
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February 3, 2012 2:41 PM
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Although modern medicine is established in Asia, traditional medicine also plays a big role in people's healthcare and is gaining in popularity in other countries too.
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February 3, 2012 2:28 PM
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Li-Ning Wang†, Jiao-Zhen Zhang†, Xia Li†, Xiao-Ning Wang†, Chun-Feng Xie‡, Jin-Chuan Zhou†, and Hong-Xiang Lou Org. Lett., Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/ol3000124 Publication Date (Web): February 3, 2012
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February 2, 2012 7:48 PM
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Marine life forms are an important source of structurally diverse and biologically active secondary metabolites, several of which have inspired the development of new classes of therapeutic agents. Additionally, there is a rich pipeline of clinical and preclinical marine compounds to suggest their continued application in human medicine. Review from Gerwick & Moore pdf here : http://download.cell.com/chemistry-biology/pdf/PIIS1074552112000075.pdf
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February 2, 2012 7:06 PM
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Created by: Pierre-Marie Allard Research disciplines: Chemistry Tags: drug discovery, ethnopharmacology, marine natural products, metabolomics, natural products, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, traditional medecine ... JOIN, COLLABORATE !!!
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February 2, 2012 3:25 PM
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Nice podcasts and "flash cards" from the iTouch chemistry project, Georgia Gwinnett College. Check links on the left.
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February 2, 2012 3:10 PM
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One in five academics in a variety of social science and business fields say they have been asked to pad their papers with superfluous references in order to get published.
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February 2, 2012 12:42 PM
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ChemSpider SyntheticPages is a free database of practical synthetic procedures, provided by the community for the community
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February 2, 2012 12:19 PM
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The Organic Chemistry Portal offers an overview of recent topics, interesting reactions and information on important chemicals for organic chemists.
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