So, it's nearly the start of the month, and we'll be starting April off with giving away prizes. All you have to do is take about 3 minutes of your time to answer this 15-question survey. What...
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Pardon the less-than-frequent postings the last few weeks. I have been on travel for nearly the whole month, but just one more week to go, and The Biotech Weblog will be back to normal frequency....
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The wonder spice from Asia, turmeric's primary pigment and active ingredient called curcumin (a polyphenol) is typically used as a food colour in dairy products, beverages, cereal, confectionary,...
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An axon is the extension of a neuron that communicates with other neurons. Researchers at the Penn State created an elegantly simple model of the axon which they used to reproduce a change in the...
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After rice, the second food crop to be fully sequenced genomically is the grape variety Pinot Noir. This grape variety is one of the first vines to be domesticated some 2,000 years ago which is grown...
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According to a study done at Yale School of Medicine, a single pain receptor is responsible for the "kick" delivered by garlic and mustard oil (also the active ingredient in mustard and...
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As announced in the main page of Creative Weblogging, we will be giving away prizes to lucky readers of the network in April. Sometime next month, we will be conducting a survey, and all you have to...
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Farming and Horticulture is one labor-intensive industry, enough reason for the horticultural arm of the University of Warwick to work on a collection of robots and automated systems that will...
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National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) researchers found that a version of a gene previously linked to impulsive violence seems to weaken brain circuits...
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Hemp is a crop grown for durable fiber and nutritious seed while marijuana is the most abundant illegal drug of abuse in the United States. However, both plants belong to the species cannabis sativa...
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Zinc is an essential micronutrient but it remains a mystery metal to scientists who are studying its role in Alzheimer's disease, stroke and other health problems. Scientists however are beginning...
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An adult stem cell company based in Los Angeles, California, Moraga Biotechnology Corporation announced the discovery in adult tissues of a very primitive stem cell with properties that are similar to...
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Nanotechnologists at the University of Texas in Dallas have created an alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater...
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Eau Plus, a new Swiss company upon teaming up with an undisclosed technology partner have developed a way to derive omega-3 containing both EPA and DHA from algae. The process is said to be oil and...
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We all know that vitamin D is important for bone development and may even help protect against the development of some cancers. However, it should be the right dose; otherwise, it can lead to toxic...
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The world, especially the law enforcement officials can now say goodbye to traditional ink fingerprints, thanks to the new technology developed by a University of Toronto-led team of international...
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According to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, a noninvasive approach for assessing lung inflammation should accelerate efforts to develop drugs for inflammatory...
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A more effective and safer way to detect and kill cancer cells have been discovered by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Francisco: by changing...
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The research team at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) created a rice-shaped particles of gold and iron oxide which they whimsically called "nanorice". Nanoparticles...
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A genetic immunization technique for making high-quality antibodies faster and cheaper than by conventional methods has been developed by scientists at Mirus Bio Corporation. The process was described...
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