News tagged with butyrate
Researchers develop biodegradable substitutes for wood, plastic bottles and other common materials
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford University researchers have developed a synthetic wood substitute that may one day save trees, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shrink landfills.
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Apple pectin, apple juice extracts shown to have anticarcinogenic effects on colon
Mar 26, 2008 |
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The apples and apple juice you consume may have positive effects in one of the most unlikely places in the body – in the colon. New research has demonstrated that both apple pectin and polyphenol-rich apple juice components ...
Colon cancer shuts down receptor that could shut it down
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Though a high-fiber diet has long been considered good for you and beneficial in staving off colon cancer, Medical College of Georgia researchers have discovered a reason why: roughage activates a receptor ...
Cancer drug may prevent cocaine relapse behavior
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Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug in development to treat cancer could help prevent relapse behavior in people trying to overcome an addiction to cocaine, according to a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.
Hybrid molecule causes cancer cells to self-destruct
Jan 03, 2007 |
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By joining a sugar to a short-chain fatty acid compound, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a two-pronged molecular weapon that kills cancer cells in lab tests. The researchers cautioned that their double-punch molecule, ...
New techniques create butanol -- biofuel superior to ethanol
Jan 15, 2008 |
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A team of researchers headed by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol.
No link between gut bugs and obesity
Nov 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The types of bacterial bugs found in our guts are not a major cause of obesity, according to latest findings from Aberdeen researchers.
Transporter could help breast cancer cells commit suicide
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Researchers are trying to open a door for a killer that breast cancer cells shut out.
Colon cancer and the microbes in your gut
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A typical Western diet, rich in meat and fats and low in complex carbohydrates, is a recipe for colon cancer, Professor Stephen O'Keefe from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, told the Society for General Microbiology meeting ...
Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Insoluble dietary fibre, or roughage, not only keeps you regular, say Australian scientists, it also plays a vital role in the immune system, keeping certain diseases at bay.
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