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Anatomy of a scientific discovery

In late 1973, scientists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz spent the majority of their time in an underfunded, obscure, and cramped laboratory in Aberdeen, Sweden. While working on the brains of pigs, the duo discovered a nonaddictive narcotic chemical that they hoped to later find in human brains. If they could isolate this chemical in humans, perhaps they could find a way to help the world begin to heal itself. Hughes and Kosterlitz's research would inevitably lead them to discover endorphins, the body's own natural morphine and the chemical that makes it possible to feel both pain a.

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  • ""An international race during the 1970s among scientists in the U.S. and Scotland to isolate endorphinsnatural, morphine-like substances present in the brainis recounted in clear and colorful detail by science writer Goldberg (coauthor of Flowers in the Blood). He gives an account of the discovery (by the team of Hans Kosterlitz and John Hughes, in a poorly funded lab in Aberdeen) of a nonaddictive narcotic chemical in pigs' brains, and then follows with a contrasting account of the high-tech research conducted by scientists at American universities on opiate receptors and experiments designed to stimulate natural pain-blocking, much of the American effort motivated by the need to combat heroin addiction. In 1976, the controversy-fraught laboratory competition was superceded by the race among drug companies to develop the most successful of the 20 types of opiate peptides; the prize would be domination of a market serving an estimated 20 million chronic pain sufferers in the U.S. alone. While some researchers have sought inconclusively to establish a relationship between endorphins and mental illness, others have focused on a proposed linkage between endorphins and pleasure, learning, stress and sexual response."--This text refers to the Hardcover edition."
  • "In late 1973, scientists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz spent the majority of their time in an underfunded, obscure, and cramped laboratory in Aberdeen, Sweden. While working on the brains of pigs, the duo discovered a nonaddictive narcotic chemical that they hoped to later find in human brains. If they could isolate this chemical in humans, perhaps they could find a way to help the world begin to heal itself. Hughes and Kosterlitz's research would inevitably lead them to discover endorphins, the body's own natural morphine and the chemical that makes it possible to feel both pain a."@en

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  • "Anatomy of a scientific discovery"
  • "Anatomy of a scientific discovery"@en
  • "Las endorfinas: anatomía de un descubrimiento científico que puede llevar al premio nobel"@es
  • "Las endorfinas : anatomía de un descubrimiento científico que puede llevar al premio Nobel"
  • "Las endorfinas : anatomía de un descubrimiento científico que puede llevar al premio nobel"@es
  • "Anatomia di una scoperta scientifica"
  • "Anatomia di una scoperta scientifica"@it
  • "La Chimie du bien-être"
  • "Las Endorfinas: anatomía de un descubrimiento científico que puede llevar al premio Nobel"
  • "Anatomy of a scientific discovery [sound recording]"@en
  • "Anatomy of a scientific discovery : the race to find the body's own morphine"
  • "Las endorfinas anatomía de un descubrimiento científico que puede llevar al premio Nobel"

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