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Seaweed could make junk food healthier

...act, alginate, could be used to increase the fibre content of cakes, burgers and other types of food which usually contain large amounts of fat and a low degree of healthy nutrients, say the team. Scientists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne publish their findings in the academic journal Critical Rev...

Study shows eutrophic lakes may not recover for a millennium

...technologies are developed for reducing phosphorus content of over-enriched soils, the report says. "This type of eutrophication is not reversible unless there are substantial changes in soil management," Carpenter writes in PNAS. The amount of phosphorus that runs into the lake in any given year is small, ...

Opiates Better Than Sedatives For Treating Newborns In Withdrawal

... about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. The reviews included 13 studies with a total of 890 infants of mothers who had used opiates with or without other drugs (including antidepressants, sleep aids and marijuana) during pregnancy. Resear...

New technique may speed DNA analysis

...nting method that is unmatched in both information content per printing cycle and resolution. They achieved the latter using what Yu calls "nature's most efficient printing technique: the DNA/RNA information transfer." In the new printing method, called Supramolecular Nano-Stamping (SuNS), single strands of...

Researchers discover new route to hemoglobin synthesis

... about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic. The reviews included 13 studies with a total of 890 infants of mothers who had used opiates with or without other drugs (including antidepressants, sleep aids and marijuana) during pregnancy. Resear...

New technique helps identify multiple DNA regulatory sites

...nting method that is unmatched in both information content per printing cycle and resolution. They achieved the latter using what Yu calls "nature's most efficient printing technique: the DNA/RNA information transfer." In the new printing method, called Supramolecular Nano-Stamping (SuNS), single strands of...

UCR biochemist goes to Washington with high-protein corn

...ld's growing population Corn with twice its usual content of protein and oil and about half of its usual carbohydrate content is what Daniel Gallie, professor of biochemistry at UC Riverside, will present at a congressional se...

Weight control protein may yield antiobesity drugs

...ey role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a new report in the August issue of Cell Metabolism. The findings in mice further suggest that particular variants of the protein SH2-B might underlie obesity in humans, ...

Acid water in East Java threatens biodiversity and local welfare

...the rice harvests failing. The very high aluminium content of the water - associated with the acidity - also plays an important role in this. Other elements such as fluorine, in the form of fluoride, form a direct threat for public health. The levels are not only alarmingly high in the river water but also i...

Making plant cells work like miniature factories

...pment is ready, the team will look at the chemical content in the cells of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant that is widely used as a model organism in plant biology. Arabidopsis is a member of the mustard (Brassicaceae) family, which includes cultivated species such as cabbage and radish. "Ara...

Fluoride poisoning in China due to clay, not coal

...in Guizhou province show that the average fluoride content of coal burnt in Guizhou is lower than in any other major coal-burning province in China. Instead, they say that clay, which rural people in the province mix with coal powder, is to blame. Mixing clay with coal is much cheaper than burning large bl...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

... to continue, though some increase in radionuclide content of plant and animal products has been measured since the mid-1990s when economic problems forced a cutback in treatments. Some agricultural lands in the three countries have been taken out of use until remediation is undertaken. A number of measures...

Life in deadly conditions

...values are about the same as lye soap and the salt content that of the Dead Sea. As far as the salt content is concerned, Natronomonas pharaonis behaves like closely related organisms - for example, Halobacte...

Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer

...gate alcohol products, finding either high alcohol content or toxic contaminants. Results are published in t...uids). Commercially produced vodkas were used for content comparison. The results indicate that a significant proportion of Russian men are drinking products...

Katrina floodwaters not as toxic to humans as previously thought, study says

...iately following Hurricane Katrina were similar in content to the city?s normal storm water and were not as toxic as previously thought, according to a study by researchers at Louisiana State University. Their study, the first peer-reviewed scientific assessment of the water quality of the Katrina floodwater...

Phenolic compounds may explain Mediterranean diet benefits

...t shows a direct benefit of an olive oil with high content in phenolic compounds on endothelial function in v...y shows a direct benefit of an olive oil with high content in phenolic compounds on endothelial function in humans, carefully controlled studies in appropriate...

Drunken elephants: The marula fruit myth

...n marula fruit may naturally ferment to an ethanol content of approximately 3 percent after three or four day... to ingest enough ethanol to reach a blood alcohol content indicative of inebriation. "Assuming all other model factors are in favour of inebriation, the int...

Patterns in genome organization may partially explain how microbial cells work

...n infections to organisms that enrich the nitrogen content of soil. In addition, 16 more primitive microorgan...clei] is constrained not just by variations in the content of genes, but also by the intricate ways in which those genes are arranged on chromosomes." A bacte...

Minimal genome should be twice the size, study shows

...ave developed a way of predicting bacterial genome content using two bacteria that have evolved from E.coli. ...accurately predicted about 80 per cent of the gene content of the two bacteria, including some of the non-obvious features of their genomes. "Far from being a...

Of mice, men, trees and the global carbon cycle

...t plant emissions can be deduced from the nitrogen content of any plant. The study also reveals that the resp...ssue of the journal Nature. In revealing nitrogen content as the key to plant metabolic rates, the work uncovered a fundamental difference between plants and ...

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