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Nutrition experts propose new class of low-sugar drinks to help stem obesity and diabetes epidemics

...is will require concerted action from the following: Beverage manufacturers: Create reduced-calorie beverages with no more than 1 gram of sugar per ounce and that are free of non-caloric sweeteners, such as aspartame, sucralose or stevia. That's about 3 teaspoons per 12 ounces and about 50 calories. Man...

American Chemical Society Weekly PressPac -- April 1, 2009

... ARTICLE #3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New gas storage material: One ounce has surface area of 30 football fields Journal of the American Chemical ...terial with a record-high surface area for holding gases. Just 1/30th of an ounce of the material has the approximate surface area of a football field. Their...

Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice

...or author of a paper, which will be published in the Aug. 15 issue of Cancer Research. So not only is the medication more effective against the tumor, ounce for ounce, but it greatly reduces the side effects of the medication. Graduate student Zhuang Liu is first author of the paper. Dai and his coll...

Scientists determine drug target for the most potent botulinum neurotoxin

...icial effects of smoothing out facial wrinkles can also be used as a dreaded biological weapon. When ingested or inhaled, less than a billionth of an ounce can cause muscle paralysis and eventual death. Although experimental vaccines administered prior to exposure can inhibit the destructive action of thi...

Nutrition research unveiled this week shows pistachios are smart for the heart

...ption. Compared to baseline, both the 1.5 and 3.0 ounce pistachio diets resulted in reduction of total cho...ctions to stress. Pistachios, when eaten in both 3 ounce and 1.5 ounce servings, resulted in study participants experienc...

Slow-motion video study shows shrews are highly sophisticated predators

...re than their weight daily and can starve to death in half a day if they cant find anything to eat. As a result, water shrews are formidable predators ounce for ounce. Water shrews do much of their hunting at night so I began wondering how they can identify their prey in nearly total darkness, says Ken Ca...

UC Riverside biologist receives prestigious MacArthur Fellowship

... silks are one-tenth the diameter of a human hair, lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce up to five times tougher than steel. As a result, they are being considered...

Emerging (disease) markets

... (WCS) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a recent issue of the prestigious Journal of Wildlife Diseases. This is an ounce of prevention that we really need to use in trading hubs where human commerce of wild animals allows for the spread of diseases, said Dr. William Kare...

Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants

...uts. It is oxidized LDL and other lipproteins that contribute to plaque formation in arteries. The researchers reported that both the 1.5 and 3 ounce pistachio diets reduced oxidized LDL compared with the baseline diet. Pistachio-enriched diets also resulted in significantly higher levels of lutein ...

Light wine intake is associated with longer life expectancy in men

...rs found that long-term, light alcohol intake of less than or equal to 20 grams per day (1 glass of alcoholic beverage contains 10 grams of alcohol, 1 ounce = ~30 mL of alcoholic beverage) compared to no alcohol intake was associated with a 36 percent lower relative risk of all-cause death and a 34 lower r...

A new target for painkillers

...y injections "produced a sustained analgesic effect," the researchers wrote. RgIA was such a potent pain reliever that "about 10 billionths of an ounce reversed the hypersensitivity to pain," McIntosh says. Vc1.1 had a similar effect ?replicating studies by other researchers ?allowing rats with s...

Paying attention sets off symphony of cell synchronization

...'t change the stimulus but can make it more effective for guiding our behavior," Grabowecky said. "When you need to dig deep to summon that extra ounce of attention, it's as if you engage a symphony of brain activity that can come to your rescue as millions of neurons together make the music that repr...

Tiny particles could solve billion-dollar problem

...into non-toxic components. Cost is the primary hurdle to cleaning up TCE-polluted groundwater. CBEN's team hopes to drive down costs by using every ounce of palladium to maximum efficiency, and by eliminating drilling costs for new wells, construction costs for surface treatment facilities and energy co...