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AME-359: the anti-blow

An extropian company called "Applied Molecular Evolution" have shipped a designer molecule that neutralizes cocaine in the bloodstream.

The researchers developed AME-359 by tweaking a protein to create an optimized version of an enzyme that's common and present in all humans.

"It's a scavenger enzyme (that) goes around the body chewing up a bunch of stuff, but not particularly well," Bloch said. "We're engineering part of the human body to do something a lot better that it was originally meant to do."

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