Category Archives: molecules

Melanotan Suntan in a Syringe

Posted by spinneret on November 17, 2008 19 comments

What is safest? (a) The risk of daily and then weekly injections of an untested compound targeted at activating your pigment cells to give you an all-over suntan without having to spend time in the sun or on a UV …

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Alzheimer and Arachidonic Acid

Posted by spinneret on October 20, 2008 Comments Off

Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California San Francisco have found that removing a brain enzyme that regulates the concentration of arachidonic acid, a fatty acid, reduces cognitive deficits in a mouse model of …

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Herbal Highs and Lows

Posted by spinneret on October 7, 2008 Comments Off

Once again, the BBC is reporting on herbal highs. This time, it tells us that while most legal high pills are based on a group of drugs called piperazines, of which BZP (benzyl piperazine) is the most common and will …

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Chilis and Cancer

Posted by spinneret on October 3, 2008 1 comment

If you’ve ever worried that a steaming hot bowl of chili or cajun chicken might be doing you more harm than good, then you’re not alone. Research earlier this decades pointed out that capsaicin (the “hot” compound in red hot …

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Overton Overturned

Posted by spinneret on August 26, 2008 Comments Off

A century-old rule used throughout the pharma industry may have been overturned by new research in the UK. Researchers at the University of Warwick have demonstrated that drug transport rates across cell membranes may be hundreds of times slower than …

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Sexy Worms

Posted by spinneret on August 1, 2008 Comments Off

Some people would pay anything for a quickfix pill for their sex lives or to slow the inevitable aging process. Now, US scientists have found a new class of small molecule in the molecular biologist’s favorite nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, …

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