Synthesized opiates. Web-to-store shopping. Presenteeism. Libyan Civil War.

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• Québec Science publishes a piece about research, conducted jointly by biology professor Vincent Martin and researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, on a process by which opiates can be made from modified brewer's yeast. Martin is quoted saying opiates, such as morphine, may be derived from yeast only through a very complex process involving the production of many intermediate substances. He says health and law enforcement officials in Canada and the United States are being kept informed of developments in the Concordia/Berkeley research. 
• Onur Bodur, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, appeared on the CTV Montreal noon news yesterday to discuss his research on "web-to-store" shopping and how a growing proportion of consumers compare prices online before buying in-store. The study on price comparison websites, published in the Journal of Retailing, is also described in a piece in the e-edition of the Journal de Montreal.
• Live Well Nebraska joins the numerous media reporting on a study of the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, conducted by management professor Gary Johns and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia.
• Before It's News, Foreign Policy Journal and Libya Business Info pick up an article pertaining in part to the 2011 Libyan civil war and referencing the book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa(2012, Baraka Books), by Maximillian Forte, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. 

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