By Jill Hagel
Editors, the Gauntlet,Re: “Christ makes sense from a marketing standpoint” Oct. 14, 1999Yes, you did go out on a limb, Tyler Shandro. You may have offended a few Bible-thumpers, but to enlightened Christians, your argument was rather dim.Let me clarify. Although I am orthodox Roman Catholic, I do not pretend the Church is perfect. It… Continue reading Shandro should go back to the early ’90s
By Reem Ghaleb
University of Calgary researchers recently made some new discoveries surrounding the genes of the opium poppy. PhD student Scott Farrow and biology professor Peter Facchini have been researching the functions of opium genes to better understand their origins. “[Farrow] started to look at those enzymes in detail and found out that [the enzymes] were not… Continue reading U of C opium research sheds light on plant
By Daniel Pagan
University of Calgary researchers are one step closer to producing synthetic morphine and codeine, after unlocking the genes that allow the opium poppy to produce these two drugs. In the online edition of Nature Chemical Biology, U of C biochemist Peter Facchini explained the isolation of these genes allows for production of synthetic painkillers in… Continue reading Opium research yields synthetic painkillers