His colleague Wilhelm Lossen elucidated the chemical formula of cocaine in 1865, and the chemical structure was obtained by Richard Willstatter in 1898. Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid, which means ...

Second, the same system we describe can be engineered to detoxify chemical weapons ... determined the crystal structure of the enzyme in complexes with analogues of cocaine and heroin.

A new, low-cost chemical-sensing chip brings ... Molecules of cocaine or other substances fall into the tiny spaces between the nanoparticles on the chip’s surface. Then, when the structure is exposed ...

The term is typically used in reference to cocaine, though it’s possible to freebase other substances, including nicotine and morphine. Due to its chemical structure, cocaine can’t be heated ...

What we did was describe the structure of the dopamine ... You could say that cocaine tricks the brain. It is a form of chemical brainwashing." World's most powerful microscope provides answers ...

1a). Figure 1: The chemical structure of cocaine as recognized by different carboxylesterases. The substrate specificity of cocE resembles that of hCE-2, where the benzoyl ester adduct attached to ...

Everett Koop, surgeon general of the United States, publishes a report declaring nicotine as addictive as either heroin or cocaine ... or arsenic. Its chemical structure is similar to ...

What we did was describe the structure of the dopamine ... It is a form of chemical brainwashing." To understand what cocaine does to the brain, the researchers studied the dopamine transporter ...

Detecting the chemical fingerprint of cocaine and other drugs The new chip ... An optical layer cake The new chip -- a structure known as a metasurface -- resembles a layer cake, with several ...