News tagged with chemical marker

Looking for signs of early life

(PhysOrg.com) -- Deciphering the very early history of life on Earth is difficult. In the darkest recesses of the first billion years there are no 'body' fossils - no physical remains. Instead, scientists ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers find quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

For diabetics, spectroscopy may replace painful pinpricks

Part of managing diabetes involves piercing a finger several times daily to monitor blood sugar levels. Raman spectroscopy could let diabetics monitor glucose without those daily pinpricks. In the past, this would have required ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cardiac biomarker indicates fluid overload in dialysis patients

Nephrologists must consider fluid overload effects when prescribing dialysis, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The fluid overload biomar ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Knowing When Poultry Goes Foul

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mom's trusty nose may be good, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have gone her one better by designing an instrument that quickly and precisely sniffs trace ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New method for detecting nitroxyl will boost cardiac drug research

Wake Forest University scientists have developed a new research tool in the pursuit of heart medications based on the compound nitroxyl by identifying unique chemical markers for its presence in biological ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elemental bones: Bone samples could be the ultimate biomarker for environmental pollution

Exposure to chemical pollutants is of growing concern to regulators, health workers, and environmentalist groups alike. Now, researchers in the US and Russia have demonstrated that samples of human bone can act as a biological ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0