News tagged with natural compound
New or not? Cracking cyclic natural products for new drugs
Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new—or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Researchers find new Alzheimer's disease treatment promising
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that a compound called NIC5-15, might be a safe and effective treatment to stabilize cognitive performance in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease. The ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 12, 2009 |
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Easter Island compound extends lifespan of old mice
The giant monoliths of Easter Island are worn, but they have endured for centuries. New research suggests that a compound first discovered in the soil of the South Pacific island might help us stand the test ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Natural compound stops retinopathy
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. The research appears online ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Summer haze has a cooling effect in southeastern United States
(PhysOrg.com) -- Global warming may include some periods of local cooling, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Results from satellite and ground-based sensor data show that sweltering ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2009 |
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Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the ability to kill cancer cells in the lab. ...
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Chemists synthesize herbal alkaloid
The club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a potent brew of alkaloids that have attracted considerable scient ...
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Mass spec technique analyzes defensive chemicals on seaweed surfaces for potential drugs
A new analytical technique is helping scientists learn how organisms as simple as seaweed can mount complex chemical defenses to protect themselves from microbial threats such as fungus. Known as desorption ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors
Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Compounds could be new class of cancer drugs
A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has developed a group of chemical compounds that could represent a new class of drugs for treating cancer.
Feb 03, 2009 |
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New Single-Element Compound Discovered
(PhysOrg.com) -- Florida International University researchers have discovered a new single-element compound, a breakthrough that could rewrite chemistry books.
Jan 29, 2009 |
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