News tagged with antifreeze protein
'Snow flea antifreeze protein' could help improve organ preservation
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures.
Ice Cold: Cooler Than Being Cool
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Water expands when it freezes. Anyone who has ever left a can of soda or bottle of water in the freezer too long has witnessed this first hand. So how do plants and animals survive severe ...
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Edible 'antifreeze' prevents unwanted ice crystals in ice cream and frozen foods
Jan 14, 2008 |
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A scientist in Wisconsin reports development of an edible and tasteless “antifreeze” that prevents the formation of ice crystals that can spoil the smooth, silky texture of ice cream and interfere with the ...
Ice creamier: 'Edible antifreeze' puts the smooth in smoothie
Jul 01, 2008 |
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It's Friday night, and the movie's already spinning in the DVD player. You run to the kitchen to grab a gallon of ice cream and a spoon, but you find the tub nearly empty.
Antifreeze fish make sense out of junk DNA
Apr 04, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois have discovered an antifreeze-protein gene in cod that has evolved from non-coding or 'junk' DNA. Since the creation of these antifreeze proteins is directly driven by polar glaciation, ...
Fluorescence microscopy reveals why some antifreeze proteins inhibit ice growth better than others
Mar 06, 2007 |
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Antifreeze or “ice structuring” proteins – found in some fish, insects, plants, fungi and bacteria – attach to the surface of ice crystals to inhibit their growth and keep the host organism from freezing to ...
How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Two Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze. And when its notoriously dry home runs out ...
Antifreeze protein found in snow fleas may allow longer storage of transplant organs
Oct 21, 2005 |
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A new antifreeze protein discovered in tiny snow fleas by Queen’s University researchers may lengthen the shelf life of human organs for transplantation.
Researchers discover which organs in Antarctic fish produce antifreeze
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Jun 20, 2006 |
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Thirty-five years ago Arthur DeVries of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign first documented antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) in Antarctic notothenioid fishes. This month three colleagues report ...
Genes hold secret of survival of Antarctic 'antifreeze fish'
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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A genetic study of a fish that lives in the icy waters off Antarctica sheds light on the adaptations that enable it to survive in one of the harshest environments on the planet.
Virtual screening leads to real progress in drug design
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Around 150,000 people per year get African sleeping sickness, a disease spread by the biting tsetse fly and caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Unless treated, the illness is invariably fatal. And ...
Food counterfeiting, contamination outpace international regulatory systems
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Intentionally contaminated Chinese milk killed several children and sickened 300,000 more, causing concern around an increasingly connected world economy. Demand for inexpensive products virtually guarantees future repeats ...
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