News tagged with seaweed extract

Seaweed extract may hold promise for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment

Seaweed extract may eventually emerge as a lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Ohio man's fossil find in Kentucky stumps experts

(AP) -- Experts are trying to figure out what a fossil dubbed "Godzillus" used to be.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New technology converts seaweed to renewable fuels and chemicals

A team of scientists from Bio Architecture Lab (BAL), has developed breakthrough technology that expands the feedstocks for advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals production to include seaweed (macroalgae). The team engineered ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Chemical warfare on the reef: How certain seaweed species harm corals

Scientists for the first time have identified and mapped the chemical structure of molecules used by certain species of marine seaweed to kill or inhibit the growth of reef-building coral. Chemicals found ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Powered by seaweed: Polymer from algae may improve battery performance

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking to Mother Nature for solutions, researchers have identified a promising new binder material for lithium-ion battery electrodes that not only could boost energy storage, but also ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New discovery turns seaweed into biofuel in half the time

University of Illinois scientists have engineered a new strain of yeast that converts seaweed into biofuel in half the time it took just months ago. That's a process that's important outside the Corn Belt, said Yong-Su Jin, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Biofuels from the sea

Seaweed may prove a viable future biofuel – especially if harvested in summer.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Seaweed as biofuel? Metabolic engineering makes it a viable option

Is red seaweed a viable future biofuel? Now that a University of Illinois metabolic engineer has developed a strain of yeast that can make short work of fermenting galactose, the answer is an unequivocal yes.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Seaweed: The new trend in water purification

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Charles Yarish is turning his enthusiasm for seaweed into a new system for cleaning up waterways.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Bricks made with wool

Spanish and Scottish researchers have added wool fibres to the clay material used to make bricks and combined these with an alginate, a natural polymer extracted from seaweed. The result is bricks that are ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New study documents use of hormone progesterone in simple microscopic aquatic animals

A new study shows that humans and tiny aquatic animals known as rotifers have something important in common when it comes to sex.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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