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Researchers find stem cells from monkey teeth can stimulate growth and generation of brain cells
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Nov 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered dental pulp stem cells can stimulate growth and generation of several types of neural cells. Findings from this study, available ...
No Pulp Fiction: Engineers See Major Paper Mill Savings With New Rotor Technology
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A partnership between University of British Columbia, government and the pulp and paper industry has resulted in the development of three high efficiency pulp screen rotors that produce high ...
Cockatoos might halt pulp mill project
Jun 20, 2006 |
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A $650 million Australian pulp mill project might be halted by the red-tail black cockatoo, although the bird has never been seen at the planned site.
Brazilian acai berry antioxidants absorbed by human body
Oct 06, 2008 |
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A Brazilian palm berry, popular health food though little research has been done on it, now may have its purported benefits better understood. In the first research involving people, the acai (ah-sigh-EE) ...
Scientists create fuel from African crop waste (w/Video)
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bananas are a staple crop of Rwanda. The fruit is eaten raw, fried and baked — it even produces banana beer and wine. Around 2 million tons are grown each year but the fruit is only a small percentage of ...
A chemist's discovery breathes new life into the old South
Aug 18, 2009 |
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One chemist plus one new scientific discovery yields. . . an economic and environmental miracle. Almost overnight, a whole new industry springs up and breathes life into an economically-devastated region of ...
Puppy teeth make new dog bone
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Japanese scientists say they have been able to regenerate parts of dogs' jawbones using stem cells from their puppies' teeth.
Paper from sugar cane saves trees and money
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to make paper more easily and cheaply from bagasse, the fibrous sugar cane waste from sugar production, than from trees has been discovered by a Queensland University of Technology researcher.
Paying peanuts for clean water
Nov 08, 2007 |
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Peanut husks, one of the biggest food industry waste products, could be used to extract environmentally damaging copper ions from waste water, according to researchers in Turkey. Writing in the Inderscience publication the ...
Washington forests may be solution to state's green-energy quest
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Wood is a popular fuel for heating homes in the Northwest but few people might see it as an important source of liquid fuels for motor vehicles. However, a new University of Washington report ...
South American swans decimated
Nov 22, 2005 |
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The World Wildlife Federation says a recently opened pulp mill in Chile has devastated one of South America's most biologically outstanding wetlands.
'Super paper:' New nanopaper more break-resistant than cast iron
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 09, 2008 |
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Researchers in Sweden and Japan report development of a new type of paper that resists breaking when pulled almost as well as cast iron. The new material, called "cellulose nanopaper," is made of sub-microscopic ...
Typhus found in DNA from Napoleonic troops
Dec 16, 2005 |
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University of the Mediterranean scientists have found evidence of typhus and trench fever in pulp from the teeth of Napoleonic soldiers.
Briefs: Meeting to consider nanotechnology impact
Feb 15, 2006 |
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will co-sponsor an April conference to examine the impact of nanotechnology on paper, pulp and wood products.
Toward a healthier food for Fido: Corn provides promising fiber alternative
Feb 25, 2008 |
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In addition to helping fill gasoline tanks with alcohol-based fuel, corn may have a new role in filling Fido’s bowl with more healthful food, nutritional biochemists in Illinois are reporting. They found that ...
