fermentation

New Study to look at the Beneficial Effects of Coenzyme Q10 on Parkinson’s disease

... produced natural CoQ10 since 1977 through a yeast fermentation process and currently supplies between 60 and 70 percent of the CoQ10 sold in the US. The US has been estimated to account for up to two thirds of global demand. Kaneka doubled its capacity to 150 tons last year and is adding a further 30 tons this y...

Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...s no clear definition of biotech. “Everything from fermentation to aquaculture and sericulture to bio fertilizer is clubbed under biotech, resulting in sub critical funding,” India needs ‘to set priorities in the R&D work program,” it says, and should urgently address problem arising out of a large number of agen...

Water fluoridation and tooth decay

... to the acids that are released as a result of the fermentation of sugars including glucose, sucrose and lactose. In fact dentists recommend that kids should be given fluoride therapy at certain ages when molars are erupting into the oral cavity. Fluoride toothpastes are also recommended. Dental caries is caused ...

A Component In Milk May Help Control Inflammatory Diseases

...s occurs." CLA, which is synthesized by microbial fermentation in the rumen of dairy cows, exists naturally in a number of structural forms. Cook's team determined that one of the variants inhibits the COX-2 protein by blocking a key cellular pathway. The COX-2 protein is known to play a significant role in many...

Plant based vaccine for Anthrax

...nd rashes involved in conventional anthrax vaccine fermentation process. Daniell feels that an affordable anthrax vaccine of 360 million doses in one acre of tobacco plant, as the threat of anthrax bioterrorism is very high. The study was funded by NIH and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Professor Henry Daniel...

A success for the Indian pharmacy: gets licence to manufacture Tamiflu

...lls to make Tamiflu, a year-long process involving fermentation of E-coli bacteria. The company says Hetero Drugs is among the first to demonstrate that it is technically capable of making a reliable generic version of Tamiflu....

Tamiflu substrate produced from Bioengineered Bacteria

...eered E.coli bacterium to produce shikimic acid by fermentation method. Fermentation procedures uses cheap carbohydrate source which will be used by the bioengineered E.coli as a substrate for production of high quality Shikimic acid....

Genetically modified Lactic acid bacteria offers HIV protection

...ich is a good probiotic bacteria which is used for fermentation of curd and yogurt, used as a probiotic drug in treating throat infections and// also as applications in saving fish culture system from pathogenic bacteria. Cynovirin protein is found to inhibit the binding of HIV virus into the mucous membrane of...

Beans Devoid Of Flatulence Causing Compounds Would Soon Hit The Market

...of these compounds. Hence they boosted the natural fermentation process by adding L casei thereby reducing the indigestible wind-causing compounds. Soluble fibre was reduced by two thirds and the amount of raffinose, another flatulence-causing substance, by 88.6%. But the amount of insoluble fibre, which is has...

Is Soy Sauce Getting into a Thick Soup?

...ing process; when soy sauce is made by the natural fermentation process, it does not get contaminated. The agency suspects that the presence of certain ingredients like acid hydrolyzed vegetable protein, used to make the soy sauce, may be rendered impure during the hydrolysis process. Those who wish to avoid 3-...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...ting, the most common symptom of IBS, to bacterial fermentation by giving lactulose breath tests to participants. This test monitors the level of hydrogen and methane on the breath and showed evidence that small intestine bacteria overgrowth may be a causative factor in IBS. The current Annals study participant...

Drinking Red Wine Cuts Risk of Colorectal Cancer

...gth of time the grape skins are present during the fermentation process. 'The concentration is significantly higher in red wine than in white wine, because the skins are removed earlier during white-wine production, lessening the amount that is extracted,' explained Joseph C. Anderson, M.D. Dr. Anderson says a he...

Celebrating Christmas With Wine – The Elixir of the God

...ce of grapes, and subjected to the same process of fermentation to make wine; yet grapes are most suited because t...skin, which is either present or absent during the fermentation process. It is often stated, older the wine the better it gets, owing to the increased levels of ant...

Party Over –now Its How to Get Ove’ the Hangove!

...‘congeners’. Congeners are toxic byproducts of the fermentation process and are seen more in the more aged drinks, comment experts.Being cautious certainly helps before you reach out for the next cup of wine that is so enticing. Remember prevention is even better than a stitch in time that saves nine!...

Anti Cancer Drug from Blue Green Algae

... algae for high-level production using traditional fermentation approaches," said Sherman. But the compound, called cryptophycin 1, held so much promise as an anti-cancer drug that organic chemists got busy trying to find ways to make a synthetic form of the compound in large enough quantities for clinical trials...

Transformed Pizzas- for Those Who Mix Health and Pleasure

...efore baking, Moore tested the effect of different fermentation times, ranging from zero to 48 hours, on antioxidant properties. Longer fermentation times also boosted antioxidant levels, in some cases by as much as 100 percent, he says. The increas...

Cancer Cells Reprogram Energy Needs To Grow And Spread

... make HIF-1 only under low oxygen conditions, when fermentation is necessary to make energy. However, in the absence of VHL, HIF-1 is active even when oxygen is plentiful and switches on genes that help a cell take up more glucose. This current work shows that excess HIF-1 counteracts a protein called MYC, whic...