Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Insect Repellant Breakthroughs

Computers are making it easier to identify and develop more effective insect repellants than DEET (n,n-diethyl-m-toluamide), which was developed over 50 years ago and is the active ingredient in most repellants.

While testing, one of these new compounds was effective for 73 days, as opposed to 17.3 days for DEET.

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