It is still used in perfumes, although many perfume makers now use a synthetic version.
More to the point, according to Professor Bruce Ames, an eminent biochemist at UC-Berkeley, our foods contain 10, 000 times more natural, endogenous pesticides the result of plants evolving with their own natural defenses against fungi and predators than synthetic ones, but many of the latter are actually less harmful.
What scares many people about the emerging field of synthetic biology is the lack of official safeguards.
But many workers have learned to get around these with synthetic-urine kits from drug-paraphernalia shops.
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of which Dr Sinclair is a co-founder, has identified a number of synthetic molecules whose effect on yeast is many times more potent than resveratrol's.
They stretch in all directions, and like the synthetic base layers worn by skiers and many other athletes, they are breathable (twice as much as cotton) and wicking to remove moisture from the skin.
But the explosive growth of synthetic ETFs in recent years is a strong clue that many large investment banks have found them extremely profitable.
Costly land and labour values have forced many perfume makers to move to major cities and increase the use of synthetic materials, said Virginia Bonofiglio, associate chairperson of cosmetics and fragrance marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
While fine silk gazar and doubleface cashmere are standard bearers for luxurious clothing, many designers are finding that polyester, nylon, neoprene, polyamide and other synthetic materials allow them to be more daring and versatile.
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By then many refiners will have expanded and upgraded to take not only heavy crude but also synthetic crude from Canada's oil sands.
Some maintained that many of the natural pesticides produced by plants were potentially more of a risk than the synthetic ones used in conventional agriculture.
We came across many terrible stories while searching for answers, but no one seemed to be connecting the dots concerning these synthetic cannabinoids.
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