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Saying Yes to NO [Preview]

The patent office is issuing a wealth of patents related to one of the most celebrated molecules of the past decade

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JONATHAN STAMLER of Duke University has applied for more than 50 NO-associated patents. Image: SAM OGDEN

When three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for discoveries about nitric oxide, news

coverage often focused on how this insight helped lead to the creation of Viagra. But the ubiquitous role that nitric oxide (NO) plays in the body--it does


This article was originally published with the title Saying Yes to NO.



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