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University of Oregon duo create molecular trap for arsenic.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

By Greg Bolt, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 2--University of Oregon researchers have come up with a kind of molecular prison that traps arsenic, a discovery that has the potential to lock up one of the most potent environmental toxins people face.

It remains to be seen if the new molecule can be further developed for use in cleaning up contaminated water or treating victims of arsenic poisoning.

But if it can, it could be a powerful new tool for countering a naturally occurring poison that contaminates water supplies around the globe.

UO chemistry professor Darren Johnson and graduate student Jake Vickaryous came up with the new molecule while on something of a scientific fishing...

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