Gene therapy, a set of medical technologies that plant new genes in a person's cells in order to produce missing proteins, might be used both to save lives and to ramp up athletic performance.
In 2003 a team led by David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School described 19 plant-derived molecules that activate sirtuins in yeast.
Each profile will contain descriptions of the plant itself, of its medical properties, and of chemical tests that can be used to identify it.
The project, which includes researchers at the University of Liverpool and plant breeders, bio-medical groups and manufacturers of garlic-based medicines from mainland Europe, will also examine whether garlic preparations are as effective as the raw, unprocessed product.
Iran says it needs enriched uranium for its Bushehr nuclear power plant to generate electricity, and to produce medical isotopes.
While there may be medical value in some of the individual components of the cannabis plant, the fact remains that smoking marijuana is an inefficient and harmful method for delivering the constituent elements that have or may have medicinal value.
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"This implies risk, since the absence of medical supervision and the variability of the active drug substances contained in the plant make it very difficult to ensure correct dosing and follow-up of consumption, " it says on its website.
New figures on background radiation levels recorded 60km northwest of the Daiichi power plant have also been released this week by Japanese physicist Tsuneo Konayashi from Fukushima Medical University.
Mr Sato said centres already housing people who had been moved from their homes near the plant did not have enough hot meals and basic necessities such as fuel and medical supplies.
Colorado already has intensive rules aimed at keeping its medical marijuana market in line, including the digital tracking of cannabis, bar codes on every plant, surveillance video and manifests of all legal pot shipments.
Francoise Barbira-Freedman, a medical anthropologist at Cambridge University, described how she discovered the remedy, which is derived from the rare Acmella oleracea plant, while visiting the tribe in the rainforest.
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