Low-calorie sugars offer new way to solidify vegetable oils and gels Researchers at the City College of New York have reported the successful transformation of vegetables oils into a semi-solid form using low-calorie sugars as a ...
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Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
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Studying a cycle of protein interactions needed to make fat, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a biological switch that regulates a protein that causes fatty liver disease in mice. Their findings, they report, may help ...
Kerecis, a provider of tissue-regeneration materials, has been awarded a US patent for the use of fish skin in medical applications. The Kerecis material consists of sheets of intact, decellularized fish skin that have had all cells and ...
Valproic acid is one of the most widely prescribed drugs for the treatment of epilepsy. It has also been shown to be effective for the treatment of mood disorders and migraine headaches. What prompted your research into valproic acid ...
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People can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food, according to new findings from research centre on human senses the Monell Centre (Monell). Researchers said innovative methods using odour to make low-fat foods more ...
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Childhood obesity rates have nearly tripled in the previous 30 years and researchers are asking the important question of how this epidemic will impact the future health of these obese children and public health in general. A University of ...
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Calling it a move to improve transparency with consumers, major American beef producer Cargill has begun labeling some of its ground beef products that contain the company's finely textured beef, a lean beef product derived from fatty ...
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If frigid weather is making you shiver, there's an upside -- it might also help you burn calories. Both moderate shivering and moderate exercise may convert bad white fat into healthier brown fat, a new study says. White fat stores ...
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Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. ...
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TUESDAY Feb. 4, 2014, 2014 -- People who've had weight-loss surgery need to closely monitor their nutritional intake and may require dietary supplements, according to the results of a small, new study. Researchers looked at 23 patients ...
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New wheat herbicide, new sorghum and corn hybrids, multi-hybrid planter, and new partnerships all on the horizon. Zidua herbicide receives federal registration for wheat BASF announced that Zidua herbicide has received federal ...
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Dietary fibre, such as that found in vegetables, may help asthma sufferers The ‘Western’ diet may have more to do with the asthma epidemic than has been assumed so far because developing asthma is related to the amount of ...
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar. This yeast produces oils and ...
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For the first time, chemists have successfully produced an artificial cell containing organelles capable of carrying out the various steps of a chemical reaction. This was done at the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) at Radboud ...
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