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Posted by choukri on Jun-12-2003 14:06:

Science

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A biotech company called Applied Molecular Evolution is working with a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a drug made of a designer enzyme that blocks the effects of C. The drug could also function as an antidote for overdoses.
The researchers have had promising results with the drug, called AME-359, in animals. They gave rats an overdose of C without the addition of AME-359. All the rats died. Other rats received Applied Molecular Evolution's drug along with the C, and 100 percent survived.

I dont know if they will take the risk to give an overdose to a human. Do you think that the authorities can decide to sell it everyway ? If yes, then they allow the consumption of C ?

Posted by butterfly on Jun-12-2003 14:07:

this might be a stupid question, but what is C?

Posted by choukri on Jun-12-2003 14:08:

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Originally posted by butterfly
this might be a stupid question, but what is C?

Cocaine

Posted by butterfly on Jun-12-2003 14:10:

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Originally posted by choukri
Cocaine

oh ok. that was my first guess but i kept thinking vitamin c which didnt make sense.
hmmm... maybe it'll be like the after pill. so you get the high but dont have to deal with the come down.

Posted by daffodil on Jun-12-2003 14:23:

i think it could be approved as an experimental medicine after extensive animal testing. then when someone is brought into a hospital after they've overdosed, the medicine would be given. the only hangup i see is i think permission has to be given to use an experimental medicine on someone, and it doesn't seem like a person in the midst of a cocaine overdose would be particularly able to give consent.

Posted by Misty Kitty on Jun-12-2003 14:23:

i can see the benifits of the drug for c users, addicts n od-ers. so i can see why the authorities may let the manufacturing of it go ahead.

Posted by whiskers on Jun-12-2003 14:26:

i just watched requiem for a dream