The following web sites provide additional information linked to the topics in the SATIS Revisited unit magic bullet.

The discovery of aspirin:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blaspirin.htm

The Royal Society of Chemistry website to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of mauveine – the site is a highly illustrated timeline featuring some of the key people and events related to this topic:
www.rsc.org/Chemsoc/Activities/Perkin/2006/index.html
www.rsc.org/Chemsoc/Activities/Perkin/index.asp

The work of Paul Ehrlic, Gerhard Domagk and Alexander Fleming is described on the Nobel website:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1908/ehrlich-bio.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1939/domagk-bio.html
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/fleming-bio.html

More on Paul Ehrlich’s work:
www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31949
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich

The impact of Prontosil and other new drugs during the Second World War:
http://home.att.net/~steinert/wwii.htm

This website tells the story of the development of penicillin as a miracle drug:
http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/FunFacts/penicillin.htm

Details of Milstein and Köhler can be found at:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1984/milstein-autobio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Milstein

The Cancer Research UK website has accessible information about cancer and cancer treatments including chemotherapy:
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk
http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerandresearch/ learnaboutcancer/treatment/chemotherapy

The BBC website has information about chemotherapy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/3243613.stm

This is an article in Student BMJ about Herceptin:
http://student.bmj.com/issues/00/10/reviews/391.php

This site has more about Herceptin:
www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Treatments/Biologicaltherapies/ Monoclonalantibodies/Trastuzumab

A booklet (paper and pdf.versions) about drug development from Wellcome trust:
www.wellcome.ac.uk/bigpicture

Here is an animation about drug development:
www.wellcome.ac.uk/bigpicture/drug/runflash2.html

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