Beating malaria

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Nicholas White and Francois Nosten from Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) of the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Program have shown that drugs in combination with artemisinin are 90% effective at fighting malaria. Nosten and White are using artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) to treat malarial patients in Thailand and China.

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Addictive research

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The experiments with CREB-deficient mice were used to determine the withdrawal symptoms that could aid other addiction treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy which might influence memories is presented.

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Weighty issues

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Mass spectrometers are helping researchers in understanding the charge and mass of chemicals and determining the isotopic composition and the structure of a compound.

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