News tagged with energy balance
Tequila plant could fuel vehicles and help reduce emissions
In an article published today in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, plant physiologist Dr Daniel Tan and his University of Oxford collaborators have analysed the potential to produce bioethanol (biofu ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 29, 2011 |
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Researchers observe single protein dimers wavering between two symmetrically opposed structures
Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and Ohio State University have used a very sensitive fluorescence technique to find that a bacterial protein thought to exist in one ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Potential mechanisms for future anti-obesity drugs identified
An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, identified the neurological and cellular signaling mechanisms that contribute to satiety — the sensation of feeling ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Feast, famine and the genetics of obesity: You can't have it both ways
In addition to fast food, desk jobs, and inertia, there is one more thing to blame for unwanted pounds-our genome, which has apparently not caught up with the fact that we no longer live in the Stone Age.
Dec 15, 2010 |
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New use for old drugs in treating hepatitis C
Common drugs used to treat conditions such as diabetes and obesity could be used to successfully treat hepatitis C virus infection.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Study advances science of carbon accounting
Determining with precision the carbon balance of North America is complicated, but researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have devised a method that considerably advances the science.
Mar 06, 2012 |
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'Starving' fat suppresses appetite
Peptides that target blood vessels in fat and cause them to go into programmed cell death (termed apoptosis) could become a model for future weight-loss therapies, say University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 01, 2010 |
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'First light' taken by NASA's newest CERES instrument
(PhysOrg.com) -- The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2012 |
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The birth of a cloud droplet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wrapped in mystery, the formation of a cloud droplet comes down to physics. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led a research team that has helped peel away another layer of the cloud droplet ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2011 |
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Clouds' effect on sunlight energy at Earth's surface depends on the wavelength of light
Bouncing around from cloud to cloud, and down to Earth, sunlight's warmth is both enhanced and blocked by clouds. Atmospheric scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that clouds' overall ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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USDA report shows improving corn-ethanol energy efficiency
Harry Baumes, Acting Director of USDA's Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, says a report that surveyed corn growers in 2005 and ethanol plants in 2008 indicates the net energy gain from converting corn ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Less is more: Study shows that teens who sleep less eat more fatty foods and snacks
A study in the Sept. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that teens who slept less than eight hours per weeknight ate higher proportions of fatty foods and snacks than adolescents who slept eight hours or more. The result ...
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Tour de France Stresses Riders' Bodies to the Limit
Glancing at the elevation profiles of the stages of the 2010 Tour de France is enough to tire a couch potato. The mountainous race is legendarily strenuous, but beyond short-term discomforts such as road rash ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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New genomic technique reveals obesity gene variants
Obesity is highly heritable, but so far genetic association studies have only explained a small fraction of this heritability. Now, in a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, researchers have i ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Fat hormone influences baseline dopamine levels and our motivation to eat
As we all know from experience, people eat not only because they are hungry, but also because the food just simply tastes too good to pass up. Now, a new study in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, helps ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
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