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Getting in the Mood: Candles, Wine, ... and Nasal Spray?

Drug makers might be close to a chemical cure for couples' bedroom woes.


It’s the sort of fantasy once confined to ads in back pages of girly magazines: an aphrodisiac that renders even the clumsiest, onion-breathed lover irresistible to women. Charlatans have sold such love potions to the gullible for thousands of years. But with the success of Viagra, claims like this carry with them a new kernel of credibility. Scientists are, in fact, working hard on chemicals to stoke women’s sexual fires.

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  • Pharma's High-Mileage Hybrid
    Wyeth hopes to drive up drug discoveries by blurring the lines between pharmaceutical and biotech.
    June 11, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Drug Development
  • News: Hawaii GMO    
    Native interests and the biotech industry are locked in a battle in Hawaii over the vegetable taro.
    May 21, 2007 - HEATHERR BOURBEAU - Health - Drug Development
  • News : Inside Live Tumors    
    MIT researchers are developing an implant that will let doctors monitor malignant tumors from inside the tumors themselves.
    May 20, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Health - Drug Development
  • News : Nanomuscles    
    Artificial muscles made with carbon nanotube yarn are being studied to replace ones in damaged limbs.
    May 19, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Health - Drug Development
  • News : Napoleon's Last Battle    
    Modern pathological methods suggest that the dictator was felled not by poison but by gastric cancer.
    May 18, 2007 - PETER WINTER - Health - Drug Development
  • A Bear Market    
    Bear bile could be used to treat disorders such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's.
    May 17, 2007 - JULIAN SMITH - Health - Drug Development
  • The Global Transformation    
    The international nature of research and development is changing the life sciences in radical ways.
    May 16, 2007 - G. STEVEN BURRILL - Health - Drug Development
  • Patenting Life    
    Patent protections and concerns about sharing information may be holding back crucial developments in medicine and biotech.
    May 15, 2007 - LORI ANDREWS - Health - Drug Development
  • RX for Pharma    
    The pharmaceutical industry has some work to do to repair its tarnished image including communicating more clearly the benefits of new drugs.
    May 14, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Drug Development
  • Cynthia Kenyon on New Pathways to Longevity    
    Thanks in part to this researcher's work, scientists are beginning to question many widely accepted views on aging.
    May 13, 2007 - STEPHAN HERRERA - Health - Drug Development
  • Waking up to Sleep Apnea    
    Some 20 percent of the adult population suffers from sleep apnea but physicians typically miss this serious diagnosis.
    May 12, 2007 - DAVID GOLLAHER - Health - Drug Development
  • A Sustainable Model for Negotiation    
    Can the interaction between modern societies and indigenous peoples ever be win-win?
    May 11, 2007 - BRIAN VASTAG - Health - Drug Development
  • Everything Old Is New Again
    As the cost of drug development soars, entrepreneurs and investors are looking to repurpose off-patent drugs.
    May 10, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Drug Development
  • The Vision Thing    
    Is life science more than the sum of its parts?
    May 10, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Drug Development
  • The 21st Century Meets the Tin Man    
    Enhancement, longevity, and on-demand spare parts: But can Joe Six-Pack compete with Sid Cyborg?
    May 08, 2007 - BRUCE GOLDMAN - Health - Drug Development
  • The Last Page    
    The takeaway from Christopher Buckley's Boomsday: Make sure your social policies measure up to the creativity of your innovations.
    May 01, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Drug Development
  • Eye on the Street
    The latest news and numbers from Wall Street.
    January 22, 2008 - Business - Markets
  • Eye on the Street
    The latest news and numbers from Wall Street.
    January 22, 2008 - Business - Markets
  • Spot's Little Helper    
    Canines need drugs, too. The trick is getting pharma to pay attention.
    September 01, 2007 - By Varese Layzer - Business - Business Strategy
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper    
    Insect-derived drugs are the next big thing. But finding them means a race against time.
    September 01, 2007 - By Robert R. Dunn - Science - Research
  • A Digital Liver
    Federal regulators hope computer modeling can identify drugs that damage the liver before they do harm.
    August 13, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Science - Technology