Duke Researchers Discover Central Role Of Nitric Oxide In Hemoglobin Action
...ery of how blood carries oxygen tobody tissues and extracts waste carbon dioxide while keeping vessels openand blood pressure steady. Scientists say the discovery, detailed in the March 21 issue of the Britishjournal Nature, could quickly pay off in developing the first effectiveblood substitute, an...Argonne Researchers Develops Simple, Inexpensive Method For Cleaning Industrial Waste Streams
...ing a process or waste solution, where the coating extracts thelow concentration of metal. The magnetic particles, and their metal baggage, areremoved from the solution with magnets, Nuez said. The metal can be stripped from the particles, allowing both the metal and theparticles to be recovered, while the ...Can The Economic Promise Of Drug Discovery Continue To Preserve The Suriname Forest?
...,Virginia Tech has identified 30 different, unique extracts that have activityand has isolated 20 chemical com...hile, Bristol-Myers Squibb has put more than 3,000 extracts through32 screens each in six different therapeutic areas, with the result that onepromising compoun...Stroke Risk Increased In Patients With High Oxygen Use In Brain
...ets to the brainand the amount of oxygen the brain extracts from the blood are pretty wellmatched," said Powers, a professor of neurology and associate professor ofradiology at the School of Medicine. "But using PET, we confirmed that in somepatients with blocked carotid arteries, there was an imbalance betwe......hemgrowing." The stress response team showed that extracts from carrots which hadbeen growing under cold cond...rmally express antifreeze activity and showed that extracts fromthese plants stopped ice crystals growing. Dawn Worrall, a postdoctoral scientist working on th...Cholesterol Inhibitors In Garlic Identified
...nn State scientist noted that he used fresh garlic extracts in hisrecent studies. Deodorized aged garlic extract consists mostly of the same watersoluble, sulfur-containing chemicals, he said. In Yeh's earlier feeding studies with rats, aged garlic extract reducedblood cholesterol by 15 percent. In th...Clemson Researchers Turn Crabshells Into New Product Lines
..." The process is a closed-loop system that extracts the remainder offood-grade meat from the shells, then reduces the shells to their primarymaterials D chitin and calcium D with no discharge into the environment. Thechitin can then be converted into chitosan and glucosamine, products that are inhigh ...BNL Scientists Report On A Natural Cleanup Solution For Polluted Soil & Incinerator Ash
...ntists from BNL's Department of Applied Science.It extracts metal contaminants from soil and wastes and then converts them to aconcentrated and stable form. The researchers report that their process removed nearly all the toxicmetals and uranium from soil taken from polluted sites in Ohio and Tennesse...Powerful Anti-AIDS Agent Found In Tears And In Urine Of Pregnant Women
...d many other scientistsshowed that highly purified extracts of hCG failed to have any affect on thesecells. So it wasn't clear whether hCG itself or some other protein in the urinefrom which it was prepared was responsible. Dr. Lee-Huang's laboratory narrowedthe search to a portion of the hormone called the b...Botanical Products Act Like Estrogen In Animals, Finds University Of Pittsburgh Team
...she added. The Pittsburgh research team found that extracts of vitex, dang gui, Americanginseng and cohosh bou...to the investigators. "It appears as though these extracts work through several biological pathways,"added Dr. Eagon. Herbal remedies have been used fo...Study Bolsters Theory Of Plant Nutrients Trapped In Soil
... the laboratory, and then exposed protein extracts ofthe algae to a sample of humic acid from peat that Hatcher gathered in the Florida Everglades. They used this particular isotope, nitrogen-15,because it is ...Protein Misfolding, Not Mutant Gene, Key To Lethal Sleep Disorder
... with a similar disease. The researchers then used extracts fromthe patient's brain and from the brain of a different patient with confirmed FFIto transmit the disorder to transgenic mice with a mouse/human prion proteingene. The neuropathology in the affected mice was indistinguishable, indicatingthat these ...Researchers at UNC-CH succeed in synthesizing ginkgo molecule
...T. Crimmins, professor of chemistry atUNC-CH. "The extracts have been used for thousands of years as herbal medicinesand have been attracting a lot of attention recently. The complexity of themolecule caused us to change our approach several times, and that's why thesynthesis required so much time." T...Ginkgo herbal supplements vary widely in content
...ournalarticle. Ginkgo products are based on herbal extracts from the leaves of the Ginkgobiloba tree, also known as the maidenhair tree, which first appeared on Earthduring the time of the dinosaurs about 200 million years ago. Widely marketedas a way of improving mental alertness and slowing the development...Pacific Northwest developments earn spots in top 100 list
...onresin and regeneration solution, the CAR process extracts ammonia out of sewagetreatment liquid and livestock waste then converts it into standardcommercial-grade, ammonium sulfate fertilizer, a dry odorless product. Thetechnology was jointly developed by Pacific Northwest, Battelle and Scotts Co.,which co...Experiments illuminate workings of biological clocks
...th light and found that TIM was indeed degraded in extracts preparedfrom cells. By contrast, extracts from flies that had not received a light pulsedid not support TIM degradation. Next, the researche...Blueberries: New thrills for those over the hill
...week-long dietsupplemented with fruit or vegetable extracts with potential antioxidanteffects. A fourth group of animals did not receive the special diet. The groupof animals that received the supplements showed some improvement on keyindicators of age-related decline. The study was conducted by James Jos...Common spices protect bacteria during irradiation
...archers believe their findings indicate that spice extracts could be used to protect healthy tissue in people undergoing radiation therapy. The research, conducted at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, India, is reported in the current print issue (April 17) of the Journal of Agricultural and Food...Biologists find Peruvian plants inhibit growth of TB bacterium
...ity, and his colleagues examined about 1,250 plant extracts returned from Peru and found that 46 percent showed an inhibition against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the bacterium that causes TB. The finding is a first step toward developing potential drugs that can combat the disease. The unexp......dependent teams studied the commercially available extracts of St John's wort. They discovered that hyperforin--a component responsible for much of the antidepressant activity--also stimulates the production of a liver enzyme called CYP3A (Journal of Endocrinology, vol 166, p R11). "It'...