News tagged with protective antioxidants

Organic onions, carrots and potatoes do not have higher levels of healthful antioxidants

With the demand for organically produced food increasing, scientists are reporting new evidence that organically grown onions, carrots, and potatoes generally do not have higher levels of healthful antioxidants and related ...

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Secrets of a Life-Giving Amino Acid Revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Selenium is a trace element crucial to life -- too little or too much of it is fatal. In the July 17 issue of the journal Science, researchers at Yale University and University of Illinois at Chi ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0




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Avocado oil: The 'olive oil of the Americas'?

Atmospheric oxygen facilitated the evolution and complexity of terrestrial organisms, including human beings, because it allowed nutrients to be used more efficiently by those organisms, which in turn were able to generate ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Scientists identify major source of cells' defense against oxidative stress

Both radiation and many forms of chemotherapy try to kill tumors by causing oxidative stress in cancer cells. New research from USC on a protein that protects cancer and other cells from these stresses could one day help ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pass the lycopene: Scientist can protect supplements inside food

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University food scientist has developed a way to encase nutritional supplements in food-based products so that one day consumers might be able to sprinkle vitamins, antioxidants and ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Keeping track to selenium metabolism

Spanish and Danish researchers have developed a method for the in vivo study of the unknown metabolism of selenium, an essential element for living beings. The technique can help clarify whether or not it ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fresh hopes for anti-microbial potential from Aussie native plants

QAAFI and Queensland Government scientists have discovered promising new anti-microbial properties in a combination of natural-plant ingredients, including two common native Australian plums.

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oxidative stress: Less harmful than suspected?

Arterial calcification and coronary heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, cancer and even the aging process itself are suspected to be partially caused or accelerated ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover anti-inflammatory polyphenols in apple peels

Here's another reason why "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"—according to new research findings published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, oral ingestion of apple polyphenols (antioxidants found in apple peels) ...

Biology / Other

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Huskies lend insight into mercury risk

Researchers have highlighted the serious health risks associated with the diets of indigenous people by linking the accumulation of mercury in their primary food source to a decrease in the power of antioxidants.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Muscling toward a longer life: Genetic aging pathway identified in flies

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have identified a set of genes that act in muscles to modulate aging and resistance to stress in fruit flies.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Milking the pigeon: extracting the mechanisms involved

Pigeons, flamingos and male emperor penguins are all able to produce "milk" in their crop to feed their chicks. Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Genomics uses new technology to stu ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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