News tagged with bioactive compound

Old fruit peel are the new healthy snacks

Japanese food researchers Noriham Abdullah, Marina Zulkifli, Mohd Hilmi Hassan, Wan Nur Zahidah Wan Zainon and Nur Ilmiah Alimin have developed a new healthy snack out of fruit peels to fulfil a growing need ...

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Snacks for healthy eaters

UiTM food researchers Noriham Abdullah, Marina Zulkifli, Mohd Hilmi Hassan, Wan Nur Zahidah Wan Zainon and Nur Ilmiah Alimin have developed a new process for the formulation of fruit peel based snacks to bridge ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two catalysts are better than one

Much like two children in the back seat of a car, it can be challenging to get two catalysts to cooperate for the greater good. Now Northwestern University chemists have gotten two catalysts to work together on the same task ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

St. John's wort collection mined for its medicinal value

A unique collection of St. John's wort (Hypericum) curated by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Ames, Iowa, is providing university collaborators with genetically diverse, well-documented sources of this h ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Iranian scholars share Avicenna's medieval medical wisdom

For pulmonary ailments, certain mediaeval physicians had a useful medical textbook on hand offering detailed information remarkably similar to those a modern doctor might use today. One of the fathers of medicine, the great ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Sensitizing tumor response to cancer therapy

Two forms of skin and brain cancer respond very poorly to chemotherapy and radiation: melanoma and glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0