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Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

...r vegetables like sweetcorn, kale and broccoli are rich in a chemical called lutein, which, together with ... but we want to discover whether eating vegetables rich in these chemicals will have a direct impact on the disease. "Since macular pigment is wholly deri...

New evidence of early horse domestication

...ochemist, and her students. Modern horse manure is rich in phosphorous, potassium, and especially nitrogen, compared to undisturbed soils. But because nitrogen is mobile in soils, it can be lost to groundwater or transferred to the atmosphere by organic and inorganic processes. Phosphorus, on the other ha...

A cleaner, greener rice industry

...6 aims to raise people's awareness of the region's rich biodiversity, and strengthen regional cooperation and implementation of actions on environmental conservation. It supports ASEAN's commitment to achieve the goals of sustainable development envisaged in ASEAN Vision 2020 on the establishment of a "cl...

MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec

...now fully recovered and is again living a full and rich life. "I am extremely impressed with the doctors at the MUHC; from the onset I had unquestioned confidence in their ability to perform this complex surgery," says Patrice Dionne. "I'm so thankful that I will now be able to enjoy this fathers day with...

Massive duplication of genes may solve Darwin's 'abominable mystery' about flowering plants

...o boast plenty of unique biochemistry. "They're a rich source of medicinal compounds. Even the kind of wood they make is special." The new results support the idea that "whole-genome duplications are rare in vertebrates, but common in plants," according to dePamphilis. Independent whole-genome duplica...

New research: Soy germ isoflavones reduce bone loss

... SoyLife® is a range of ingredients from soy germ, rich in isoflavones. More than just an isoflavone concentrate, SoyLife® offers the complete spectrum of natural soy compounds, the Soy Matrix TM , which enhances the bio-availability of isoflavones. "In addition to this research, more studies are examini...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...e and the surrounding North Rupununi District is a rich source of exotic butterflies that are sought after by many western butterfly farms and other institutions that exhibit collections of live butterflies. Each individual butterfly pupa that they can ship to one of these customers can be worth between 2...

Agriculture and tropical conservation: rethinking old ideas

...imals in the area, and they see that it's the big, rich landowners who come in and cut all the trees down and turn the land into cattle pastures. So the standard litany doesn't ring true to them." Vandermeer and Perfecto reviewed studies of biodiversity in the Atlantic coast rainforest of Brazil, a reg...

A new tool against brain disease

...d a biomedical research institute and develop this rich international collaboration that enables us to study the HIV epidemic at its epicenter, to gain knowledge that we could not obtain anywhere else," he said....

How HIV 'exhausts' killer T cells

...d a biomedical research institute and develop this rich international collaboration that enables us to study the HIV epidemic at its epicenter, to gain knowledge that we could not obtain anywhere else," he said....

Elephants, large mammals recover from poaching in Africa's oldest national park

...25, Virunga National Park remains the most species rich park in Africa. It once boasted the highest density of large mammals in the world before a wave of unrest and poaching descended upon the region. Since the 1960s, the park's populations of elephants, hippos, and buffalos have declined dramatically, w...

Use of stone hammers sheds light on geographic patterns of chimpanzee tool use

...ecies. It highlights the necessity to preserve the rich array of cultures found across chimpanzee populations and communities, which represent our best model for understanding the evolution of hominid cultural diversity. As such, the new finding promises to both benefit research and inform the conservatio...

Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together

...e become even more plentiful. Even in insects, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." There have been parallel shifts in the plant world, with the plants that depend on pollination by bees disappearing too. Dr Bill Kunin, coordinator of the project at the University of Leeds explained: "We l...

New study reveals components of cocoa may enhance the appearance of the skin

...ols ?a group of compounds that can be particularly rich in cocoa and that have been previously reported to improve blood flow and vessel function. In this new study, 24 healthy women (aged 18 to 65) were randomly assigned to two groups. One group drank a high-flavanol Cocoapro® cocoa beverage (329 mg) ...

DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

...rum remarks said that the 100 microbes represent a rich portfolio of the vast and mostly uncharacterized microbial world. "DNA sequencing has opened a particularly productive vein to mine in exploring and expanding the frontier of microbiology. Especially where, through conventional culture methods, we a...

Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction

...s followed expectations: the Cretaceous sites were rich in plants and insect-feeding diversity, and the latest Paleocene and Eocene sites showed signs of recovery. Through most of the intervening Paleocene, most floras have low richness of plants and insect damage. Typical numbers of species of plants in ...

Mushrooms as good an antioxidant source as more colorful veggies

... that those who eat the most fruits and vegetables rich in antioxidants have lower incidence of these diseases. Dubost detailed her results in a paper, Quantification of Polyphenols and Ergothioneine in Cultivated Mushrooms and Correlation to Total Antioxidant Capacity Using the ORAC and HORAC Assays, pr...

Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading

...al Oregon waters. During normal years, cold water rich in nutrients but low in oxygen upwells from the deep ocean off Oregon, mixes with oxygen-rich water near the surface, causes some phytoplankton growth and provides the basis for a thriving fishery and healthy marine food chain. During dead zone perio...

Attacking cancer's sweet tooth is effective strategy against tumors

...e glycolytic pathway, could provide a surprisingly rich target for anti-cancer therapies. A team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers knocked down one of the pathway's enzymes, LDHA, in a variety of fast-growing breast cancer cells, effectively shutting down glycolysis, and implanted the cells in...

Restoring seagrass beds: Is it for the birds?

...ntists at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab see them as a rich source of phosphorus, a natural fertilizer for grassbeds which have been destroyed by boat propellers. Over the next couple of months, Sea Lab scientists Dr. Ken Heck and Dr. John Dindo will be setting out bird stakes in an effort to revive scarred ...

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