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Humanity ‘staring down barrel’ of potentially losing up to half of future medicines through plant extinction | Science & Tech News
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Humanity is “staring down the barrel” of potentially losing up to half of its future medicines through plant extinction, scientists have warned. Nearly half of all plants that flower are at risk, amounting to more than 100,000, while it is believed around 77% of all those as yet undescribed by science are at risk. Some…
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Three scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for ‘snapping molecules together’ to design medicines | World News
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The Nobel chemistry prize has been awarded to three scientists who have developed a way of “snapping molecules together” to design new medicines. “Click chemistry” or bio-orthogonal reactions can be used to produce new cancer drugs and map DNA. It is the work of US scientists Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless, and Morten…