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Impossible Foods Passes Safety Testing
Aug 14, 2017Impossible Foods says that it has passed important milestones for food safety, including a unanimous expert-panel affirmation of the safety of a key ingredient used in its products. A panel of food safety and allergy experts at three ...
Tags: Impossible Foods, food safety
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Chinese Scientists Unveil Draft Genome Sequence of Adzuki Bean
Dec 29, 2015Chinese researchers on Monday announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of adzuki bean, an important source of starch, digestible protein, mineral elements and vitamins for at least a billion people worldwide. "Adzuki bean ...
Tags: Adzuki Bean, Genome Sequence
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How People Care for Urban, Suburban and Rural Lawns
Mar 12, 2014How people care for urban, suburban and rural lawns – the nation's second biggest crop behind corn – is less consistent than believed, according to scientists with the U.S. Forest Service, Clark University, the Cary Institute of ...
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Heat-Processed Foods May Cause Brain Changes Similar to Alzheimer's Disease
Mar 10, 2014Heat-processed foods may increase risk of Alzheimer's Compounds commonly found in the so-called “Western diet” known as Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) may cause brain changes similar to Alzheimer’s disease and ...
Tags: Heat-Processed Foods, Foods
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The Surface of The Sea Takes up Nitrogen Oxides That Build up in Polluted Air at Night
Mar 7, 2014The surface of the sea takes up nitrogen oxides that build up in polluted air at night, new measurements on the coast of southern California have shown. The ocean removes about 15 percent of these chemicals overnight along the coast, a team ...
Tags: Sea Surface, Nitrogen Oxides
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Elephants, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs Once Roamed Around Freely in The Forests of Europe
Mar 7, 2014Elephants, rhinoceroses and aurochs once roamed around freely in the forests of Europe, while hippopotamuses lived in rivers such as the Thames and the Rhine. New research shows how we can use knowledge about the past to restore a varied ...
Tags: Large Mammals, Prehistoric Ecosystems, restore a varied landscape
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Researchers Combined Bacteria with Liquid Crystals
Mar 6, 2014When swimming around, bacteria aren't good with the "pool rules."? In small quantities, they'll follow the lanes, but put enough together and they'll begin to create their own flow. In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of ...
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Advanced Glycation Endproducts, Common in The "Western Diet," Suppress Levels of Sirtuin
Feb 28, 2014Advanced glycation endproducts, or AGEs, common in the "Western diet," suppress levels of sirtuin, a key defense" against Alzheimer's, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Helen Vlassara, professor and director of the Division of Experimental ...
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RMIT University Researchers Have Developed The World's First Liquid Metal Enabled Pump
Feb 27, 2014RMIT University researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have developed the world's first liquid metal enabled pump, a revolutionary new micro-scale device with no mechanical parts. The unique design will enable micro-fluidics and ...
Tags: PNAS, Liquid Metal Pump, Micro-Fluidic, Lab-on-a-chip system
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MIT Chemical Engineers Designed Nanoparticle That Can Deliver Snippets of Genetic Material
Feb 26, 2014Inspired 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 ...
Tags: RNA, MIT, Gene Silencing, Nanoparticle
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Fungal Infections by Organisms Such Candida Play an Increasingly Significant Role
Feb 26, 2014A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
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Nonflammable Lithium Ion Battery Is Built by Team
Feb 26, 2014In studying a material that prevents marine life from sticking to the bottom of ships, researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a surprising replacement for the only ...
Tags: UNC, PFPE, Ion Battery, team
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Big Data Is Everywhere, and We Are Told That It Holds Answers to Problem We Want to Solve
Feb 19, 2014Big Data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. Companies collect information on how we shop, doctors and insurance companies gather our medical test results, and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Modern Herring Management Needs to Take a Longer Look Into The Past to Manage Fisheries
Feb 18, 2014Archaeological data indicate modern herring management needs to take a longer look into the past to manage fisheries for the future says a new study involving Simon Fraser University researchers. That is one of the key findings in the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Arctic Isn't Nearly as Bright,White as It Used to Be Because of More Ice Melting in Ocean
Feb 17, 2014The Arctic isn't nearly as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice melting in the ocean, and that's turning out to be a global problem, a new study says. With more dark, open water in the summer, less of the sun's heat is ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics