Closing in on a stomach-sparing aspirin substitute

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Drug companies are racing to produce a 'superaspirin' which can reduce pain without harmful side effects. X-ray crystal structures of the cooxygenase enzyme that induces pain and its near-twin that protects the stomach and kidneys have been solved, paving the way for highly discriminatory drugs.

Product development, Analgesics, Anti-inflammatory drugs, Anti-inflammatory agents

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Making single electrons compute

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Researchers are working on developing ultrafine semiconductors with devices that manipulate electrons one at a time. The single-electron devices would require much less power and would increase the processing and memory capacities of computer chips by orders of magnitude.

Research, Transistors, Semiconductors, Microelectronics, MOSFET (Transistors), Miniaturization (Electronics), Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors

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