News tagged with ethylene glycol
Drugs needed to preserve eggs for reproduction need to be given in stages
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Cryoprotectants needed to preserve eggs for reproduction need to be given in stages, albeit rapid ones, say scientists who have developed a mathematical model that predicts optimal time for loading and unloading ...
New Ways to Use Biomass
Sep 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Alternatives to fossil fuels and natural gas as carbon sources and fuel are in demand. Biomass could play a more significant part in the future. Researchers in the USA and China have now developed ...
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Novel Chemistry for Ethylene and Tin
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by chemists at UC Davis shows that ethylene, a gas that is important both as a hormone that controls fruit ripening and as a raw material in industrial chemistry, can bind reversibly to tin atoms. ...
Why fruits ripen and flowers die: Scientists discover how key plant hormone is triggered
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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Best known for its effects on fruit ripening and flower fading, the gaseous plant hormone ethylene shortens the shelf life of many fruits and plants by putting their physiology on fast-forward. In recent years, ...
Argonne breakthrough may revolutionize ethylene production
Feb 05, 2008 |
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A new environmentally friendly technology created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory may revolutionize the production of the world's most commonly produced organic compound, ...
Researchers identify genes key to hormone production in plants
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Apr 03, 2008 |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have pinpointed a small group of genes responsible for “telling” plants when, where and how to produce a hormone that is key to their development. Their findings ...
Scientists find stem cell switch
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Jul 26, 2007 |
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Scientists have discovered how plant stem cells in roots detect soil structure and whether it is favourable for growth.
A new idea for how anti-aging products delay ripening of fruit and wilting of flowers
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May 02, 2008 |
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When plants encounter ethylene, a gas they also produce naturally as a hormone, the result is softening and ripening in the case of fruit, and wilting and fading in the case of flowers – all of which ethylene ...
Male painters exposed to fertility damaging chemicals
May 23, 2008 |
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Men working as painters and decorators who are exposed to glycol ethers are more likely to have poor semen quality, according to research carried out by scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester.
It's a gas: New discovery may lead to heartier, high-yielding plants
Nov 23, 2009 |
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In a research report published in the November 2009 issue of the journal Genetics, scientists show how a family of genes (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase, or ACS genes) are responsible for production of ethyle ...
Regulating those raging (plant) hormones
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Aug 21, 2007 |
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The Biblical book of Amos describes the 8th-century BC prophet as a "gatherer" of sycomore figs. Some now think a more correct translation would be "piercer," because that's how ancient farmers got that type of fig to ripen. ...
Counterfeit toothpaste is discovered
Jun 14, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said a counterfeit toothpaste falsely packaged as "Colgate" has been found in four states.
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