News tagged with iron compound
Deep-sea rocks point to early oxygen on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Red jasper cored from layers 3.46 billion years old suggests that not only did the oceans contain abundant oxygen then, but that the atmosphere was as oxygen rich as it is today, according to geologists.
Scientists develop new cancer-killing compound from salad plant
Oct 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently ...
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New antibiotics could come from a DNA binding compound that kills bacteria in 2 minutes
Jun 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A synthetic DNA binding compound has proved surprisingly effective at binding to the DNA of bacteria and killing all the bacteria it touched within two minutes. The DNA binding properties of the compound ...
Culprit Compounds That Block Beans' Healthful Iron Probed
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Familiar beans like reds, whites and pintos are rich in iron, a nutrient essential for our health. But not all of the little legumes' treasure trove of iron is bioaccessible -- that is, available ...
Scientists discover how some bacteria may steal iron from their human hosts
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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Like their human hosts, bacteria need iron to survive and they must obtain that iron from the environment. While humans obtain iron primarily through the food they eat, bacteria have evolved complex and diverse mechanisms ...
Superconductivity: Which one of these is not like the other?
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Superconductivity appears to rely on very different mechanisms in two varieties of iron-based superconductors. The insight comes from research groups that are making bold statements about the correct description ...
Scientists spy Galfenol's inner beauty mark
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The sonar on submarines may get far more sensitive ears in the near future thanks to a mysterious compound developed by the military. Developed over a decade ago, it took a collaboration of ...
A new process for making much-sought iron nanospheres
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Using a process that creates bubbles as hot as the surface of the sun, chemists are reporting development of a new method for making hollow hematite (iron oxide) nanospheres. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's ...
Common gene variant found to regulate iron levels
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team including researchers at UQ's Diamantina Institute and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research has identified a new variant of a gene that helps to regulate iron and haemoglobin ...
Iron regulates the TLR4 inflammatory signaling pathway
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Iron is a micronutrient essential to the survival of both humans and disease-causing microbes. Changes in iron levels therefore affect the severity of infectious diseases. For example, individuals with mutations in their ...
Progress Toward New Storage Media: Switchable Nanostripes
Oct 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In this information age, increased storage capacity is a central challenge for science and technology. A team of German and Italian researchers has pursued this by exploring the concept of ...
Red, White Wine, Fish And Science
Oct 29, 2009 |
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The long-standing rule of matching wine and food -- red wine with red meat and white wine with fish -- actually has a scientific explanation, according to two scientists working for the Mercian Corporation, ...
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