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The shift toward synthetic chemical medicines occurred in the 20th Century, but according to Mark Blumenthal, the founder and executive director of the American Botanical Council, there is renewed interest in the medicinal benefits of natural foods - including those found in the pills.
This approach, which has been repeatedly condemned by the scientific community, has discouraged the development of new pest-resistant crops, encouraged greater use of synthetic chemical pesticides, and limited the use of the newest genetic engineering technology mainly to larger developers who can pay the inflated regulatory costs.
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As that report predicted when the regulation was proposed more than a decade ago, it discourages the development of new pest-resistant crops and prolongs and increases the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, limits the use of the technology mainly to larger developers who can pay the inflated regulatory costs, and handicaps the U.S. in competition for international markets.
Byetta is a synthetic version of the Gila monster chemical he found.
Paclitaxel comes from the Pacific yew, a small, slow-growing fir found in small pockets in the Pacific Northwest. (Docetaxel comes from the European yew.) Devising a synthetic version is difficult because the chemical is exceedingly complex, marked by concentric rings of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
Unlike Codexis, which deals in purified enzymes, Amyris employs a technique called synthetic biology, which turns living organisms into chemical reactors by assembling novel biochemical pathways within them.
It's not well-known or even thought about but ever since Leo Hendricks unveiled the first fully synthetic moldable hard plastic called Bakelite to the American Chemical Society in 1909, except for a very small percentage that has been incinerated, every single molecule of plastic ever manufactured still exists somewhere in our environment.
To understand the mechanism, Dr Clarke and his collaborators made a synthetic version of the bacterium and discovered that the organism generated a charge, and effected a chemical change, when in direct contact with the mineral surface.
In 1899, Percy Julian, the inventor associated with the production of synthetic progesterone, advances in the production of cortisone, a better drug for the treatment of glaucoma and a chemical foam used to fight petroleum fires, was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
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