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Thursday, September 23, 2004

Morphine Apparently in Your Head

Wired: Morphine Apparently in Your Head:

Researchers find that humans produce their own morphine. If naysayers finally believe it, the discovery could boost pain and addiction research. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Who denies it anyway? Those same so-called scientists who think evolution is a theory? and Global Warming/climate change is in need of 'more study'? Pish-posh.

Meinhart Zenk and his colleagues at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany found that human cells grown in a dish synthesized morphine.

"Without doubt, human cells can produce the alkaloid morphine," Zenk wrote in the paper. "The studies presented here serve as a platform for the exploration of the function of 'endogenous morphine' in the neurosciences and immunosciences."

RoyGBiv from the album "Music Has the Right to Children" by Boards of Canada

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