RECENT advances in chemotherapy present the police toxicologist with the problem of extracting and identifying from viscera an increasing number of basic organic compounds. In the past, methods of ...

Yeast cells have been turned into biological factories that manufacture a range of alkaloids — naturally occurring chemical compounds such as morphine that contain nitrogen atoms and that often have ...

The Central government has decided to rope in the private sector to commence production of concentrated poppy straw from India’s opium crop to boost their yield of alkaloids, used for medical purposes ...

Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh): Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) and All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) expressed their resentment over the Government of Indiaís decision to give the work of processing opium ...