News tagged with complex carbohydrate foods

Chewing gum reduces snack cravings and decreases consumption of sweet snacks

Men and women who chewed ExtraŽ sugar-free gum three times hourly in the afternoon chose and consumed less snacks and specifically, less sweet snacks than they did when they did not chew gum. They still reached for a variety ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Colon cancer and the microbes in your gut

A typical Western diet, rich in meat and fats and low in complex carbohydrates, is a recipe for colon cancer, Professor Stephen O'Keefe from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, told the Society for General Microbiology meeting ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Toxic menu: Marine worm feeds on carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide with the help of symbiotic bacteria

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Greifswald University, together with collea ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sweet success in hunt for honey's healing factor

Comvita, the New Zealand-based global exporter of natural health and beauty products, and collaborators have identified key compounds in honey that stimulate the immune system, paving the way for a range of new wound-healing ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New method of bacterial cell engineering can produce better, cheaper drug therapies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Escherichia coli – a bacteria considered the food safety bane of restaurateurs, grocers and consumers – is a friend. Cornell University biomolecular engineers have learned to use ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria tend leafcutter ants' gardens

(PhysOrg.com) -- Leafcutter ants, the tiny red dots known for carrying green leaves as they march through tropical forests, are also talented farmers that cultivate gardens of fungi and bacteria. Ants eat ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery changes how scientists think about plant cell wall formation

University of Georgia researchers have discovered that two proteins come together in an unexpected way to make a carbohydrate, a chain of sugar molecules, in plant cell walls. This fundamental discovery changes ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Synthetic biology' could replace oil for chemical industry

Vats of blue-green algae could one day replace oil wells in producing raw materials for the chemical industry, a UC Davis chemist predicts.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New contrast agents detect bacterial infections with high sensitivity and specificity

A new family of contrast agents that sneak into bacteria disguised as glucose food can detect bacterial infections in animals with high sensitivity and specificity. These agents -- called maltodextrin-based ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Not just another brick in the (plant cell) wall

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study revealing key steps for controlling plant growth, researchers have shown how the assembly of components of the plant cell wall regulates growth of root hairs. Root hairs are ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Know your tomatoes

Genetically modified (GM) tomatoes look much the same as traditional varieties (Fig. 1). But are they? By comparing the chemical diversity of strains of GM tomatoes with a control strain and traditional reference ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3


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