Reuters reports that Rio 2016 weightlifting bronze medalist Izzat Artykov tested positive for strychnine, which is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances. Artykov, who represents ...

Strychnine, a poisonous alkaloid from the Strychnos nux-vomica tree, has fascinated chemists for more than 200 years, inspiring them to determine its complex molecular skeleton and to reconstruct the ...

I was in the pharmacy section of my local grocery store last week, looking for children's ibuprofen, when I stumbled upon Children's ColdCalm, a homeopathic product from Boiron. This stuff isn't cheap ...

Today’s performance-enhancing drugs take years to severely damage an athlete’s health. Back in 1904, they didn’t have time for such things. A couple of strychnine injections during the marathon at the ...

Like most awful poisons, strychnine got its reputation early. Unlike most awful poisons, it was rarely mistaken for anything else. Here’s why strychnine is one of the world’s most common, but least ...

One day on Twitter, some science bloggers who began life on the dark side, in the humanities, happily discovered a shared taste for classic mystery writers. We thought we might write a series of posts ...

A research team has disclosed the complete biosynthetic pathway for the formation of strychnine in the plant species Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nut). The researchers identified all genes involved in ...

Researchers from the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology have unraveled the complete biosynthetic pathway for strychnine, which is naturally produced by the poison nut tree (Strychnos nux-vomica ...

The highly toxic, colourless pesticide is used in baits designed to kill small animals, like gophers, moles and coyotes You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have ...

LOUISIANA, Mo. — A 37-year-old man is dead after taking methamphetamine that authorities believe was laced with a main ingredient in rat poison. James Gregory died Sunday in Pike County in northeast ...