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Molecules: You'd better learn to live with them.
November 26, 2008
Category: Not Really a Molecule
The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a million pounds to anyone who can bring them 100% chemical-free material....
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November 19, 2008
Category: Not Really a Molecule
The Seed people inquired with each of us as to what we hope and fear to be blogging about next year. Since a list of molecules wouldn't make any sense here, it is more of a general sense of what...
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November 18, 2008
When loratadine/Claritin went off patent, it also was approved for OTC use, and Schering-Plough didn't like this, because it meant less money. One patent strategy is to get a drug's metabolite approved for the original drug's purpose, after the original...
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November 17, 2008
Category: Drugs
Loratadine is an antihistamine used for treatment of allergies. Its main distinguishing characteristic is that it is nonsedating, because the molecule minimally penetrates the barrier separating the brain from the bloodstream....
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November 10, 2008
Category: Medicine
Metformin is about as simple as a drug gets:...
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November 7, 2008
Category: Drugs
Cyprodenate is an old-timey antidote for benzodiazepene overdose:...
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November 3, 2008
Category: Perfumey
Limonene is a monoterpene that occurs in citrus peel, and it has a strong generic citrus smell. Many terpenes are smelly, like carvone (spearmint or caraway). Interestingly, limonene is cheap and abundant enough to use as a semi-green degreaser or...
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