Indian pharmaceutical firm Ranbaxy has launched the drug Synriam, which it claims will prove a more efficient and simpler treatment for malaria. With its affordable price, Synriam may well be a step towards achieving the WHO’s goal of eradicating malaria by 2050, but Ranbaxy cannot take all the credit for it.
Ranbaxy launches new anti-malarial Synriam – Chemistry World, 3 May 2012
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As far as we know, there are very few planets in the universe which are just like our planet Earth. The elements it is made from have played a critical role in allowing life to exist here. However, there may be planets out there whose composition is very different. There is a huge range of possibilities – perhaps there is no oxygen, only sulfur or very little phosphorus but a lot of arsenic. Could life exist on such planets? Scientists have thought about this question for decades. To answer it, we need to understand more about DNA, the molecule of life, the elements it is composed of and consider the results of some unusual experiments.
The elements of life – InfoChem, November 2011 Issue
Found in secret agents suicide pills, used for extracting gold from its ore, and found in dangerously high quantity in African staple food – here’s hydrogen cyanide.
Chemistry in its elements: Hydrogen Cyanide, Chemistry World, 14 September 2011
Akshat Rathi 