How to help the environment: Turn cooking oil into renewable fuels
Greenhouse gases and plastic waste are the targets of a USC Dornsife chemistry startup.
Materials Science
Nov 08, 2018
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News tagged with lactic acid
European badgers' gut bacteria may be a powerful ally in the fight against tuberculosis
What do cattle, European badgers, and gut bacteria have in common? They are all central players in a complex web surrounding a disease that affects multiple species, often with devastating results—tuberculosis. Now, new ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 04, 2018
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Adding nanoparticles to a polymer matrix enhances the thermo-mechanical properties of the materials
A*STAR researchers have toughened up polylactic acid while maintaining its elasticity by adding core-shell nanoparticles as a filler1.
Nanomaterials
Oct 04, 2018
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Intestinal bacteria produce electric current from sugar
Intestinal bacteria can create an electric current, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The results are valuable for the development of drugs, but also for the production of bioenergy, for example.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 18, 2018
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Nanoparticles improve tumor treatment in mice
In the treatment of cancer, chemotherapy is a cleaver, not a scalpel. By attacking rapidly dividing cells, chemotherapy effectively fights tumors, but it also ravages healthy cells in the gut, bone marrow, the scalp and other ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 26, 2018
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Probiotic bacteria can diagnose, prevent, and treat infections
MIT engineers have developed a probiotic mix of natural and engineered bacteria to diagnose and treat cholera, an intestinal infection that causes severe dehydration.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 14, 2018
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Method for synthesizing a novel polyester with alternating arrangement
Professor Hideto Tsuji and Assistant Professor Yuki Arakawa at the Toyohashi University of Technology have developed a method for synthesizing a "pure" alternating copolymer of L- and D-lactic acids in which L- and D-lactic ...
Polymers
May 11, 2018
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The microbiological art of making a better sausage
Fermented sausages can vary in taste quality depending on whether the fermentations begin "spontaneously", or using a commercial starter culture. A team of Italian investigators found that commercial starter culture produced ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 01, 2017
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Nutrition that increases productivity in intensive livestock breeding
Improving the productivity of Brazilian livestock means not only finding ways to make the cattle produce more meat or more milk, but also addressing issues such as diseases. One of those, ruminal acidosis, plays a major role ...
Other
Oct 02, 2017
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Scientists reveal how goldfish make alcohol to survive without oxygen
Scientists at the Universities of Oslo and Liverpool have uncovered the secret behind a goldfish's remarkable ability to produce alcohol as a way of surviving harsh winters beneath frozen lakes.
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2017
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