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Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.
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Demand
Involving
Sensitivity
Smooth
Specificity
Muscle
Uses
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Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
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Pharmacology
Physiology
Biological
Sciences
Spawned
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Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
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Application
Forecasting
Requirements
University
Usefulness
Maintain
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At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.
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Christmas
Chemistry
Consuming
Experimentation
Life Age Me
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Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release.
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Provocation
Release
Content
Low
Slightest
Tissue
Types
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We lived in a suburb of Birmingham where I attended the local state school from the age of five. I then went on to King Edward VI High School in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Attended
Edward
Suburb
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Plainly, when perfusate from an organ or blood from an animal is used for superfusion, substances can reach the assay tissues within a few seconds of generation or release.
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Animal
Release
Seconds
Organ
Plainly
Substances
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Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to the market has to depend on the resources of industry.
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Academy
Resources
Carry
Depend
Develop
Discoveries
Forward
Fundamental
Market
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After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.
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Medical
Department
Institute
Medical Research
Oxford
Pharmacology
Qualifying
Sheffield
Worker
Dr
Geoffrey
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At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!
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Blue
Changed
Colour
Dirty
Gas
Green
Hydrogen
Involving
Laboratory
Mother
Abrupt
Attached
Burner
Came
Explosion
Minor
Newly
Painted
Stove
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The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
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Knowledge
Basic Research
Folklore
Research
Serendipity
Today
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow World
Accumulate
Arising
Based
Discoveries
Medicines
Scientific
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
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Attitude
Ideas
Left
Path
Pessimistic
Plenty
Right Path
Said
Altogether
Discover
Trick
Major
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