Pharmaceutical residues and chemicals from personal care products in sewage sludge and cattle manure do not have a detectable toxic effect on nematodes living in agricultural fields, according to 14-year-long experiments ...
Ecology
Feb 16, 2022
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Bacteria show great promise as a source of active ingredients. Using computer-based genome analysis, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered a new class of natural products that might one day serve as antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 15, 2022
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A new study looking at the presence of pharmaceuticals in the world's rivers found concentrations at potentially toxic levels in more than a quarter of the locations studied.
Environment
Feb 14, 2022
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Scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (United Kingdom), and the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble (France), have found that some pollen has survived mass extinctions thanks, in part, to its nanofoam wall ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2022
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While frog and salamander declines worldwide have made scientists outspoken about the need to preserve amphibian genetic diversity, two University of California, Berkeley, biologists emphasize another important reason for ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2022
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A method of producing vital chemical building blocks for use in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries that mimics how plants manufacture them has been developed by University of Warwick scientists.
Biochemistry
Feb 1, 2022
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Shrimp shells, plant extracts and recycled plastic have helped KAUST researchers to build a sustainable thin-film composite membrane that could replace conventional membranes whose environmental toll is greater.
Materials Science
Jan 27, 2022
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Protein drugs are widely used as pharmaceutical agents to treat a range of disorders. However, most of these drugs are not very stable and are only retained in the blood circulation for a limited period, which minimizes their ...
Biotechnology
Jan 25, 2022
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Addressing climate change is a massive and daunting challenge. But many economists say gradually increasing taxes on emissions would significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gas spewed into the air at the lowest economic ...
Economics & Business
Jan 21, 2022
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A popular internet meme juxtaposes a picture of a female scientist working in a lab captioned "Vaccine Research" with that of a woman looking at her smart phone while sitting on the toilet captioned "Anti-Vax Research." The ...
Social Sciences
Jan 5, 2022
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