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Thu 03 Mar 2008When chemistry finds gold in the green
WHEN IT COMES to protecting the environment, chemicals don't always have the best of reputations. But chemistry can be green too, argues one researcher from University College Dublin. By making therapeutic drugs in the lab, chemists can help save plants with medicinal value from being over-exploited.
"Nature can design very complicated chemicals, and some of them happen to be able to treat diseases like cancer," says Billy Fleming, a PhD candidate at UCD's centre for synthesis and chemical biology.
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