They are testing a synthetic molecule that destroys tobacco's 'feelgood' effect by stimulating white blood cells to smother nicotine when it reaches the bloodstream.

Both pungent ingredients are used as fixatives and base notes in perfumes, although nowadays they are often simulated with synthetic molecules.

Attention has turned to using synthetic molecules from the same family, referred to as 'rapalogs', in an attempt to reverse some of the biological signs of ageing.

These synthetic molecules can be used not only in medicine, but in creation of new materials.

Various pharmaceutical companies developed synthetic molecules activating these channels in order to prevent excessive neurotoxic calcium entry in neurons.