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Since free radicals have been implicated in many diseases, he says the modified buckyballs have broad therapeutic potential.

Mice who received the modified buckyballs had their symptoms delayed by 10 days and survived 8 to 10 days longer than untreated mice.

Tour and his colleagues are currently testing the ability of the modified buckyballs to enhance images of synthetic cube- and star-shaped DNA.

In 1993, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco and the University of California at Santa Barbara found that a modified buckyball fits into a cylindrical space in the H.I.V. protease enzyme, which breaks down proteins and disrupts the virus's ability to reproduce.

To date, however, those buckyballs have not contained any extraterrestrial gases.

"The buckyballs have been starved for the lack of a way to make them by the ton, more than any other single factor," Dr. Smalley said.

Other spherical fullerenes or "buckyballs" have since been synthesized as well as nonspherical fullerenes that include cylinders (carbon nanotubes-CNTs), lobed structures, and bowls to name a few.

Mr. Zucker maintained that Buckyballs had been marketed to adults and that the packaging had been covered with safety warnings.

Every previous attempt to protonate buckyballs had destroyed the molecules, but the carborane acid succeeded, turning the magenta buckyball powder into a red salt the color of Bordeaux, the team reports in the 7 July issue of Science.

Genetically modified foods have long been controversial.

However, even this modified version has problems.