So Who Cares About All This Research?!

 

Besides the fact that it saved Yourbodyville, this heroic enzyme has many prospects.

• Treating cocaine overdose
So you and a friend are at a party. Well your friend was always into having a little

too muchfun, and now he might die because he just overdosed on cocaine. You’re clean

and sober, since you were only drinking Diet Coke, and you rush your friend to

the hospital. Because of the research on how the body gets rid of cocaine,

your friendcan be treated for acute cocaine overdose and live.

Way to keep a cool head in a crazy situation.

• The government will use it
This enzyme is versatile and can get rid of all kinds of toxins in the body---

including chemical weapons. The military has been developing the enzyme

hCE1 to protect soldiersfrom exposure to chemical weapons; sort of how a

flu shot can help you out with the flu.

• Developing better enzymes
Scientist are now using hCE1 as a template to develop moreselective and

efficient enzymes that can be used to help out soldiers in war and people

who damage their bodies with drugs.