The boom is the result of a discovery by drug traffickers that a plant commonly found growing wild in parts of Afghanistan, ephedra, can be used to create the key component of meth: ephedrine.

Ephedra-type alkaloids, a class of naturally occurring compounds derived from plants in the genus Ephedra, have long held interest in the pharmaceutical industry due to their stimulant and airway ...

Academia Sinica yesterday announced the launch of the Biomedical Translation Research Center (BioTReC) Nucleic Acid Pilot Plant during an event unveiling plaques for the National Biotechnology ...

The Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (APS) encourages submissions from all areas of pharmacology and the life sciences. Please go to Aims and scope page for more details. Acta Pharmacologica Sinica now ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Academia Sinica opened its southern campus in Tainan’s Guiren District on Tuesday (Oct. 15). During the opening ceremony, President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) pointed out that the ...

APS (Acta Pharmacologica Sinica) encourages submissions from all areas of pharmacology and the life sciences. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, anticancer pharmacology ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (simplified Chinese: 中国科学院; traditional Chinese: 中國科學院; pinyin: Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn), formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the ...