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...ach year. Resistant starch is so named because it resists being digested in thestomach and lower intestine. Instead it travels right through the digestivetract to arrive largely intact in the large intestine (or colon), whereit had a number of significant health benefits. Dr Topping says scientists did not......ein that normally is associated with membranes and resists being pulledaway from the lipid-rich membrane environment, Farese said. He and his colleagues took advantage of computer-based searching to"find" DGAT. The team used the known DNA sequence of a related enzyme--calledACAT--involved in cholest...Reusing Ag Drainage Water An Option For West Side Farm Sustainability
...' tendencyto adhere together and form a layer that resists water infiltration and causesrainwater to pond in the field. Untreated soil dries to rock-like hardness. In a complex chemical process, gypsum maintains the pores in the soil throughwhich water and air can penetrate. "Simply trying to push a shovel i......l lead coatings in automobile primers. The coating resists corrosion and provides a smooth surface for painting, while potentially eliminating one million pounds of toxic lead and significant amounts of chrome and nickel from a major industrial use. Novozymes North America (Franklin, N.C.) developed its BioP...Clemson-led team makes breakthrough in controlling Bt resistance in pests
...netically modified species, called Bt cotton, that resists the tobacco budworm and other insects. Concerns took shape that the battle against the budworm was not a decisive victory. Under laboratory conditions, strains of tobacco budworms could be made Bt-resistant by feeding the insects a high-dose diet of......s of chromosomeswhere genes are kept "off" and DNA resists genetic recombinationcontain one variety of histone H3. In contrast, the researchers found that "active" regions of chromosomeswhere genes can be easily switched "on" and DNA can readily recombinecontain a slightly different variety of histone H3. Hi...NIMH scientists discover new details of HIV infectious process
...t T cells are in a resting state, a condition that resists HIV infection. The researchers found that HIV has evolved a way around this natural barrier. NIMH Director Steven E. Hyman, M.D., said, " This work further demonstrates the subtle ways in which HIV avoids the body's natural resistance to infection. ...Leptin may hold key to better weight loss
...al Center. "This study shows that an active system resists weight loss, but that the resistance can be overcome," says Dr. Louis J. Aronne, clinical associate professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and senior author on the study. "Hopefully, it will point us towards more successful treatments...Dutch researchers receive award for combating terrorism with chemistry
...ergy from high-velocity bullets. The material also resists abrasion and withstands moisture, UV radiation and many chemicals. Dyneema is the world's strongest fiber and is fifteen times stronger than steel on a weight-for-weight basis, DSM claims. According to DSM, Dyneema fibers provide the best lightweight...ORNL wins four R&D 100 awards, pushing total to 116
...eel that can be used up to 850 degrees Celsius and resists failure during creep, mechanical fatigue and thermal fatigue. Developers said that end users like Caterpillar or commercial foundries like MetalTek will benefit from CF8C-Plus because it is a cost-effective product with higher performance and immense......sts of a solid disk that spins at a high speed and resists being turned to face a different direction. However, a new experiment has demonstrated a gyroscope made of a superfluid Bose-Einstein condensed gas. The ellipsoidal glob of supercold Rubidium atoms moves just like a children's toy spinning top (a com...Fox Chase Cancer Center study: Novel DNA-repair gene mutation can cause resistance to cancer drugs
...apy," said Bellacosa. The result is a cancer that resists certain widely used drugs, such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and oxaliplatin, a major drug combination used to treat patients with colorectal cancer. The normal version of the enzyme helps repair DNA damage in two ways. In one repair activity, the enzym...Standard helps control quality of joint replacements
... hip. This "crosslinking" creates a structure that resists sliding forces and wear. Manufacturers and researchers need to control radiation conditions to achieve the intended wear resistance; too much radiation causes brittleness, and too little can result in poor wear resistance. The NIST material consi......ade and even disable the host's immune system. It resists antibiotics and it secretes toxins similar to those used by diphtheria or anthrax. "This is the most lethal of the opportunistic pathogens," he adds. "Patients with widespread Pseudomonas infection can die in a matter of days." A coating with a hi...