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• n  a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative

• Sir: A footnote to your story on luminal art April 28: In November 1963, the Corcoran Gallery presented a show called "Design in Light" that may have been the earliest exhibit .
• Company chemists discovered to their horror that they had been accidentally mixed with a powerful sleeping powder, phenobarbital (popularly known as luminal).
• Says one of the commentators on this debacle: "In a word, it had cost the United States $276 billion to construct a set of luminal philosophers.

• sodium thiopental
• phenobarbital
• phenobarbitone
• Luminal
• purple heart

News & Articles

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• Molecule drives aggressive breast cancer
  Recent studies have shown a gene known to coordinate initial development of the eye (EYA1) is a powerful breast tumor promoter in mice. The gene EYA1 was also shown to be overexpressed in a genetic breast cancer subtype called luminal B.
  June 28, 2013 - Science Daily
• Researchers Discover Molecule That Drives Aggressive Breast Cancer
  Recent studies by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center have shown a gene known to coordinate initial development of the eye (EYA1) is a powerful breast tumor promoter in mice. The gene EYA1 was also shown to be overexpressed in a genetic breast cancer subtype called luminal B.
  June 27, 2013 - Newswise