LAB SMASH: A game for researchers to vent out their anger and frustration

Frustrated that your experiment has failed? Angry that you had to waste your weekend on a failed case? Now, no need to break your real flask or beaker. Just log on to Facebook and play Lab Smash!! Relieve yourself!! As a researcher myself, i feel angry if one or the other reaction fails. While separating stereoisomers through the strenuous...

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Lets make a difference on World Malaria Day by signing the JUMA petition

Who is Juma? Juma is a 5 year old boy who daily goes to school and aspires to become a great person one day.  One day, he wakes up amidst high fever. His mother immediately takes him to a doctor and he is diagnosed with malaria. Juma's mother buys the tablets at a local shop. Tablets that cost her the little money she earned in the...

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#RIP Bardoxolone: Another Potential Megablockbuster Drug Fails!!

Another Potential Blockbuster Drug namely Bardoxolone ( refer this article published earlier: http://www.pharmablockbusters.info/2011/12/bardoxolone-potential-mega-blockbuster.html ) felt the axe as it failed to clear the Ph III Clinical trials due to concerns about death and "excess serious adverse events" in patients taking the first-in-class antioxidant...

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