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- Gut microbes eat medication https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/gut-microbes-eat-our-medication 52 comments
- Gut microbes can eat our medication, suggests a new study using the Human Microbiome Project, the first concrete example of how one species of bacteria consumes levodopa, the primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease, which could reveal more about how the microbiome impacts our health. https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/gut-microbes-eat-our-medication 6 comments science
- In temperatures millions of times colder than interstellar space, scientists performed the coldest reaction in the known universe.In such intense cold, their molecules slowed to such glacial speeds, they observed the moment when two molecules meet to form two new molecules. https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/coldest-reaction 521 comments science
- Gut microbes can eat our medication, suggests a new study using the Human Microbiome Project, the first concrete example of how one species of bacteria consumes levodopa, the primary treatment for Parkinson’s disease, which could reveal more about how the microbiome impacts our health. https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/gut-microbes-eat-our-medication 583 comments science
- New Harvard paper shows nitrous oxide emissions from thawing Alaskan permafrost are about twelve times higher than previously assumed. https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/trouble-thaw 4 comments worldnews