Using the age-old idea of employing yeast to convert sugar into alcohol, researchers have formulated key steps using which sugar-fed yeast can be turned into a microbial factory to churn out therapeutic…
Tag: Narcotics
Cocaine use can now be tested in fingerprints using ambient mass spectrometry
A novel technique of detecting cocaine abuse through a simple fingerprint has been developed by researchers from multiple universities from UK and the Netherlands paving way for a secure, non-invasive and hygienic…
Cocaine use increasing in the UK; even 59-year-olds snorting it
A new report by Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), UK has highlighted the increased usage of cocaine in the country with an estimated 2.4 per cent of the population…