Europe's largest climate change experiment launched
...s from farms and organic chemicals such as washing powder into the water. We now need to look at how these problems may be exacerbated with an increase in temperature." Pets or livestock drinking toxic lake water can suffer skin irritation and severe disorders involving the circulatory, nervous and digesti...Flu virus reported to resist drug envisioned for pandemic
... oseltamivir, is effective, but is formulated as a powder and requires that a clinician provide instructions for use. Thus, it is more cumbersome to administer than the orally delivered Tamiflu. These flu-fighting drugs, says Kawaoka, are by no means a replacement or alternative to a vaccine. Effective vacc...Hanging baskets of sex and death help fruit growers
...test also helped them choose between a liquid and powder based mix for the virus the liquid was found to be best. The University of Warwick researchers are now working with colleagues from East Malling Research on a larger scale 12 hectare trial of the dispenser in a large commercial apple orchard in Worc...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2005
...been used to strengthen concrete and to understand powder compaction. DOE's Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies is funding the research. [Contact: Fred Strohl, (865) 574-4165; strohlhf@ornl.gov ] ASTROPHYSICS -- Connecting the dots . . . Nuclear physics laboratory results and simulations of exp...Hydroxycitric acid slows glucose uptake, cuts insulin peaks/valleys a la South Beach Diet
...avoring agent. In Indian folk medicine as a dried powder or tea it's indicated as a laxative and for rheumatism. As Malabar tamarind, it can substitute for lime, and in Ceylon it's used along with salt to cure fish. For HCA, though, the other half of the taste-benefit formula is much less clear. Animal stu...Animal study: Compounds in cranberries may have heart-healthy effects
...from studies indicate that feeding cranberry juice powder seems to relax and open blood vessels in pigs that...ies contain all three, so they fed cranberry juice powder to pigs that were genetically predisposed to develop high cholesterol and atherosclerosis, just as s...DuPont announces research agreement with India's National Chemical Laboratory
...k to the first shipment of raw materials for black powder explosives in 1802. DuPont is a science company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers ...14 highlighted physiology papers from IUPS 2005: From 'genomics to functions'
...rotic vascular dysfunction Taking cranberry juice powder regularly over six months saw a pronounced improvement in vascular function - ability of blood vessels to relax - in subjects with high blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis, a University of Wisconsin study found. With abnormal functioning of blood v...Cranberry juice modulates atherosclerotic vascular dysfunction
...cine studied the effects of taking cranberry juice powder regularly over six months and found a pronounced i...liott said. FH pigs who didn't get cranberry juice powder had "significantly less vascular relaxation" than either normal or cranberry-fed pigs. The pigs on t...Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem
... of palladium catalysts: bulk palladium, palladium powder on an aluminum oxide support base, pure palladium nanoparticles and a hybrid nanoparticle developed by Wong that consists of a gold nanoparticle covered with a thin coat of palladium atoms. As metal particles get progressively smaller, a higher perce...Chemical analysis of mushrooms shows their nutritional benefits
...age of total dry-matter were generally the various powder and fruit products. The research primarily involved the use of high-performance liquid chromatography, which was adapted by Laura L. Bauer, a research specialist in animal sciences and a co-author on both papers, to quantify chitin concentrations in ...