Molecule of the Week

Chemical structure of morphine.

Molecule of the Week: Morphine

Posted on May 8, 2012 12:35 pm
By Kyllmann, Sebastian

If you have ever been to the ER, chances are you have been administered morphine to reduce pain. Have you ever wondered what morphine is and why it mitigates pain? Morphine is the main alkaloid of opium, obtained from the milky fluids of the poppy plant (papaver somniferum). Like many useful chemicals found in plants, [...]

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Molecule of the Week: Ibuprofen

Posted on April 24, 2012 9:25 am
By O'Sullivan, Kevin

Go to the health center with a headache, muscle aches or a cold and chances are you will leave with some ibuprofen. But have you ever wondered why they give you the same medicine for your shin pain after running and for that fever you had winter term? Well, the answer lies somewhere in ibuprofen’s [...]


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