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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Antioxidants Here's the lowdown on antioxidants, where to find them and what they can do for you and your health. |
Reactive Reports Issue 37 David Bradley |
Chemists Hail a New Antioxidant A new family of antioxidants that are 100 times more effective than Vitamin E could be used at much smaller doses in dietary supplements and cosmetics but provide the same benefits. |
Science News June 11, 2005 Christen Brownlee |
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does. |
Nutra Solutions June 2, 2006 |
Successful Aging and the Role of Nutrients A review of the important mechanisms of functional foods that may improve health. |
Chemistry World October 4, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
More sex and grapefruit to keep you young? Scientists have shown that feeding a simple polyamine called spermidine to worms, fruit flies and yeast significantly prolongs their lifespan. |
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 John Brokars |
Fly Fishing on the Brain Applying modern transgenic and video technology to that fabled animal model, the fruit fly, EnVivo Pharmaceuticals is creating a buzz in its program against neurodegenerative diseases. |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Fairytale Insulin Substitute People with type I diabetes could one day be prescribed an extract from pumpkins that will drastically cut their reliance on daily insulin injections. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Janelle Weaver |
Scientists Identify a Gene That Drives Fruit Fly's Thirst Kristin Scott, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, has uncovered a gene, called pickpocket 28 (ppk28), that regulates fruit flies' ability to detect water and how much time they spend drinking. |
Science News July 5, 2003 Janet Raloff |
Soy Greens -- The Coming Health Food? Now, for those who eschew tofu or are tired of crunching soy nuts, Zhen-Yu Chen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues offer a decidedly different soy option: the greens. |
Chemistry World August 19, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Antioxidants could promote cancer Some tumor cells can actually use antioxidants to protect themselves from natural cellular defense mechanisms, enabling them to survive and proliferate. |
Health March 2008 Rachel Grumman |
The Ultimate Anti-Aging Vitamin Who knew vitamin C could fend off heart disease, cancer, memory loss -- and wrinkles? Here's how to make it work for you. |
Chemistry World January 10, 2013 Laura Howes |
Golden rice trial breached ethical guidelines Golden rice, the -carotene boosted genetically modified rice, which it is hoped will help to prevent cases of childhood blindness, has suffered another setback. Chinese researchers were judged to have breached ethical guidelines when they ran a trial in which children were fed the GM rice. |
Prepared Foods June 5, 2007 |
Rice Bran to the Rescue A proprietary, yet natural rice bran ensures health functionality in even the seemingly most mundane foods -- such as pastas. |
Science News October 18, 2003 Janet Raloff |
As If You Needed Another Reason to Eat Strawberries (with recipe) Scientists at Cornell University find that this fragile fruit not only tastes great and contains vitamins but also may offer surprisingly potent benefits in the body's fight against cancer and heart disease. |
Science News January 27, 2007 Patrick L. Barry |
Cider May Be Healthier Than Clear Apple Juice Apple juice might be a way to keep the doctor away, but a glass of cider appears to be even better. |
Nutra Solutions September 18, 2007 Kerry Hughes |
Beneficial Support -- September 2007 There has been a veritable avalanche of studies citing nutritional benefits of certain foods, nutrients and herbs. This stands in contrast to the negative information that frequently emanates from the mainstream press. |
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 Akshat Rathi |
Using fruit flies' sweet tooth Australian researchers have used fruit flies' sweet tooth to help in attempts to develop new sugar alternatives. |
Food Processing October 2008 |
New Clues on Cause of AMD Researchers have discovered that a diet rich in antioxidants seems to hold Age-related macular degeneration at bay. |
Food Processing June 2009 Diane Toops |
Superfruits: Back to Basics You don't have to travel to faraway places to get your antioxidants. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
Alzheimer's Disease 101 It's only in the last decade or so that we have truly come to understand the various disorders of the brain that are associated with age and, in most cases, Alzheimer's disease is the prime suspect. Read on for some basic information. |
Food Processing October 2009 Toops & Fusaro |
Berries have a Berry Good Year in 2009 Bumper crops lead to lower prices, which lead to more applications of berries in food & beverage products. |
Science News July 12, 2003 Janet Raloff |
Cholesterol Medicine for Eggs? A Taiwanese research team has been investigating red-yeast rice as a food supplement for chickens that might in turn lay low-cholesterol eggs. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jennifer Michalowski |
Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators. |
Food Processing August 2006 Kathryn Trim |
Phytochemical A-B-Cs A brief overview on helpful chemical compounds derived from plants. |
Food Processing September 2005 |
From the Bench: Fruits, vegetables and nuts This round-up features several natural ingredients which, while not new in and of themselves, keep finding new applications in food processing. |
The Motley Fool August 29, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
No Need to Kick Coffee? A study shows that Americans load up on antioxidants from coffee. This spells only nominal good news for investors in companies that rely on consumers' taste for coffee. |
Geotimes August 2007 Megan Sever |
Genetic Discovery Yields Stronger Plants Researchers have discovered a gene in a variety of rice that allows rice plants to grow better in low-nutrient conditions and may in fact actually enhance plant growth. |
Food Processing March 2006 Frances Katz |
Formulating for increased shelf life `Fresh,' organic and other consumer trends are elbowing out some traditional technologies. But there are new techniques to keep food safe and salable. |
Wired May 2004 Richard Manning |
Super Organics Forget Frankenfruit - the new-and-improved flavor of gene science is Earth-friendly and all-natural. Welcome to the golden age of smart breeding. |
BusinessWeek January 8, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Decoding Alzheimer's After a century, promising treatments at last - and whispers of a cure. |
AskMen.com K. Aleisha Fetters |
Green Tea If you still aren't drinking green tea, these four little-known benefits of green tea might. |
Food Processing February 2007 Mark Anthony |
Caution: Botanicals Working Botanicals -- nutraceutical ingredients from herbs, seeds, and fruits -- are increasingly interesting to the food industry, serving health-conscious consumers demanding "nutritive-value added" food items. |