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Compound offers pain relief without the complications

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The synthesis of a natural pain reliever could lead to an analgesic without serious side effects.

Chemists have succeeded in synthesising a natural compound that shows promise as a painkiller — and might not cause the side effects that bedevil analgesics currently used to treat acute and chronic conditions.

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  1. Tarselli, M. A. et al. Nature Chem. 3, 449-453 (2011).

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Ball, P. Compound offers pain relief without the complications. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.313

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