Brightly colored birds most affected by Chernobyl radiation
...iguing results centre on the role of antioxidants chemicals that help protect living organisms from the damaging effects of free radicals. Certain activities use up large amounts of antioxidants. These include producing carotenoid-based pigments for feathers, migrating long distances and laying large eggs (bi...QUT's top researchers honored with fellowships
...water treatment technologies to break down organic chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides and oil in water, rendering it safe to drink and re-use. ...Aphids make 'chemical weapons' to fight off killer ladybirds
.... When the aphids feed on cabbages, they consume chemicals called glucosinolates which are found in the nutri... transport vessels of the plant. Once eaten, these chemicals are then stored in the aphids blood. Mimicking the plants themselves, the aphids also produce an enz...UCSB researchers show how to make polymeric micro- and nanoparticles
...rent shapes and sizes using commonly-available lab chemicals and equipment. Knowing how to create these particles in the average laboratory environment will facilitate further discovery, as the particles are essential to understanding the role of shape in particle function. Their research is published in today...University of Cincinnati receives $1.7M to research molecular treatment of brain injury
...te, Strauss says. They can proliferate and release chemicals that cause the region to swell up. In their effort to either cordon off or repair the damage, they can also constrict blood vessels or attract even more cells into that area. Thus far doctors have been unable to prevent or manipulate these progress...Common environmental chemicals in diet affect fetal ovarian development
...ng a developing female sheep fetus to low doses of chemicals commonly present in the environment can disturb th...lish the importance of the effect of environmental chemicals for fertility. Over recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in the production of industr...Nanoparticles hitchhike on red blood cells: a potential new method for drug delivery
...ire particle, which offers the potential to attach chemicals to the exposed surface for targeting applications. The researchers have learned that particles adhered to red blood cells can escape phagocytosis because red blood cells have a knack for evading macrophages. Nanoparticles arent the first to be pigg......ire particle, which offers the potential to attach chemicals to the exposed surface for targeting applications. The researchers have learned that particles adhered to red blood cells can escape phagocytosis because red blood cells have a knack for evading macrophages. Nanoparticles arent the first to be pigg...Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
... catalyze reactions that break glycerin into other chemicals -- others, including Gonzalez, are focused on biological conversion. In biological conversion, researchers engineer a microorganism that can eat a specific chemical feedstock and excrete something useful. Many drugs are made this way, and the chemica...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...chemical biomass conversion for power, heat,fuels, chemicals and other products. Research is also conducted onplant harvesting systems and crop processing, transportation andstorage. The DOE JBEI Approach The Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers will tackle key scientificproblems that currently hinder ...News tips from ACS Chemical Biology
... current issue we learn how cells die when certain chemicals bind to DNA; fast ways of creating new molecules normally made by bacteria; insight into how thyroid hormone works in the body; a new technique for determining enzyme specificity; and understanding the regulation of attaching proteins to membranes. ...2 MSU professors spearhead international water project
...sed technologies selectively remove things such as chemicals and particles from water, said Voice, professor of civil and environmental engineering. They are analogous to filters except they remove things that are smaller and separate on the basis of chemistry and size. Our project is looking at developing new...Helping chlorine-eating bacteria clean up toxic waste
... are now in wide use to detoxify such carcinogenic chemicals as perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). They do this by removing chlorine atoms from molecules and leaving less-toxic compounds behind. But D. ethenogenes strains work well at some sites and not so well at others, and nobody knows f...Rutgers, Penn researchers capture research dollars to improve prostate cancer diagnostic methods
...oscopy (MRS), which measures the concentrations of chemicals in the prostate gland. Healthy tissue shows different proportions of chemicals than cancerous tissues, so MRS might provide more convincing evidence for the presence of disease. Y...A faster way to recover from chemotherapy and marrow transplant
..., zeroed in on dmPGE2 by screening more than 2,500 chemicals in zebrafish. Knowing that two genes, runx1 and cm...t its blood stem cells. The screen identified 82 chemicals that markedly increased or decreased gene activity. Of these, 10 turned out to affect the prostaglan...Children of smokers have more than 5 times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
...king father doubled the amount of cotinine, one of chemicals produced when the body breaks down nicotine from inhaled smoke to get rid of it. Sleeping with parents and lower temperature rooms were also associated with increased amounts of cotinine. Cotinine was measured in 100 urine samples taken from i......fuels and scores of other industrial and household chemicals with inexpensive, nonpolluting renewable plant matter. Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alter...ASU research shows connection between testosterone, dietary antioxidants and bird coloration
..., who studies the functions of naturally occurring chemicals in birds and their relationship to the birds colors and health. In the case of the zebra finch, the cost is in the pigments having enough of them to develop a red beak and enough to combat testosterone, which you also need to be red. McGraw and...Researchers shed light on shrinking of chromosomes
...ier phases of division. When the researchers added chemicals to the cell to block the late condensation, more separation defects appeared. Sometimes chromosomes get stuck and cannot be fully separated by the spindle that normally distributes them into the daughter cells, says Felipe Mora-Bermdez, who carried o...Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program
...isposal areas, focusing on radionuclides and other chemicals that could affect human health and the environment, the report says. Field analyses should be conducted when historical information offers too few details to determine the quantities of contaminants or how much they have migrated. LANL has made go...