News tagged with lactic acid

Scientists develop technology to produce sugar from photosynthetic bacteria

Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have engineered photosynthetic bacteria to produce simple sugars and lactic acid. This innovation could lead ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Massage after exercise myth busted

A Queen's University research team has blown open the myth that massage after exercise improves circulation to the muscle and assists in the removal of lactic acid and other waste products.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Researchers attempt to solve problems of antibiotic resistance and bee deaths in one

The stomachs of wild honey bees are full of healthy lactic acid bacteria that can fight bacterial infections in both bees and humans.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Defense mechanism against bacteria and fungi deciphered

To defend microbial attacks, the human body naturally produces a group of antibiotics, called defensins. An interdisciplinary team of biochemists and medical scientists has now deciphered the mechanism of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

VTT examined the first bottle of 170-year-old beer

Finnish research center VTT has examined one of five bottles of beer salvaged last summer by divers from the wreck of a ship that sank an estimated 170 years ago in the Aland Islands.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Microbiotas characterized for 19 traditional Italian sourdough breads

Italy is well-known for aesthetics that play to every sense of the human sensory system: automotive style, espresso, ancient architecture, music, and Fettuccini Alfredo, among much else. Now a team of Italian investigators ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lactic acid levels may indicate onset of brain-related aging

Researchers may eventually monitor the progress of aging by measuring lactic acid levels in the brain, according to a mouse study.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics

Scientists have crystallised a protein that may help gut bacteria bind to the gastrointestinal tract. The protein could be used by probiotic producers to identify strains that are likely to be of real benefit to people.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Good Bacteria Can Be 'EZ Pass' for Oral Vaccine Against Anthrax

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that the good bacteria found in dairy products and linked to positive health benefits in the human body might also be an effective ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists to develop tougher plastics from plants

Scientists at the University of Bath and Tel Aviv University are working on a new project to improve the properties of plastics made from plants so that they can be used in a wider variety of products, from bottles to clothes.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0