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Finding new drugs
Finding new drugs MS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are most antibiotics currently made by ? | Streptomyces. |
| What were opium and morphine used for ? | Anaesthetic. |
| What animals roam miles to find clay to counteract dietary toxins? | Elephants. |
| What have scientists used as a starting point to there search for new drugs? | Traditional plants and animal behaviour. |
| Hippocrates used what to relieve pain and fever? | Extract from willow bark. |
| Prostaglandins are? | Hormone-like substances. |
| Pharmaceutical companies have been conducting research into what ? | The way that microorganisms cause disease. |
| When a receptor is blocked by a drug, what can the pathogen not do ? | Gain access to the cell. |
| Identifying potential medicinal drugs from the DNA ? | Genomics. |