Go to any chemistry conference these days and you鈥檒l find multiple sessions on green chemistry. They won鈥檛 be talking about making green paints or growing plants. Actually that isn鈥檛 true. They may...
Questions about milk are always interesting because, after all, it is our first food. Milk is meant to be the only sustaining food during early life and therefore it must contain all the required...
You鈥檝e seen the headlines. Of the 80,000 or so synthetic chemicals in the market place only a few thousand have been adequately tested. Activist groups constantly scream about inadequate testing...
There are a lot of people who make money by doing drugs. Not the way you think though. They take on the role of human guinea pigs to test prospective medicinal drugs. Their role is mired in...
鈥淏ath salts,鈥� 鈥渧acuum fresheners鈥� and 鈥減lant food鈥� seem innocuous enough. You can pick then up at some gas stations, convenience stores, some garden supply shops, or order them on the Internet....
16th century Italians looked on black cats with a wary eye. Especially if one snuggled up to a bedridden patient. The cat鈥檚 affection, they thought, signaled that death was approaching. Oscar the...
If it isn鈥檛 illegal, it must be legal. That鈥檚 why benzylpiperazine pills, under names such as Purepillz, Peaq, The Good Stuff, Frenzy and Pure Rush can be sold in Canada. And what are these pills? ...
A time-honoured medical maxim states, 鈥減rimum non nocere.鈥� That鈥檚 the way, 鈥渇irst do no harm鈥� used to be taught in medical school when Latin was still part of the curriculum. Basically it means...
Pineapple, kiwi and papaya all contain proteolytic enzymes, in other words enzymes capable of breaking down protein molecules. And gelatin, the substance that makes Jell-O gel, is a protein....
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