News tagged with oxygen compound

Oxidative DNA damage repair

Oxidative stress damages DNA. Researchers in the Vetsuisse Faculty have now decoded the mechanism that repairs DNA damaged in this way. This repair mechanism could lead to less invasive approaches in cancer therapy and contribute ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere of early Earth

Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth. The findings, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Why do neurons die in Parkinson's disease?

Current thinking about Parkinson's disease is that it's a disorder of mitochondria, the energy-producing organelles inside cells, causing neurons in the brain's substantia nigra to die or become impaired. A study from Children's ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Strawberries protect the stomach from alcohol

In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the st ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Everest expedition suggests nitric oxide benefits for intensive care patients

The latest results from an expedition to Mount Everest that looked at the body's response to low oxygen levels suggest that drugs or procedures that promote the body's production of a chemical compound called nitric oxide ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel compound selectively kills cancer cells

A cancer cell may seem out of control, growing wildly and breaking all the rules of orderly cell life and death. But amid the seeming chaos there is a balance between a cancer cell's revved-up metabolism and skyrocketing ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Unraveling plant reactions to injury

Better understanding of plant defense systems, and the potential to generate stress-tolerant plants and even new malaria drugs, may all stem from the documentation of a molecular mechanism that plays a significant ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The traditional remedy bitter cumin is a great source antioxidant plant phenols

Bitter cumin is used extensively in traditional medicine to treat a range of diseases from vitiligo to hyperglycemia. It is considered to be antiparasitic and antimicrobial and science has backed up claims of its use to reduce ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

2D beats 3D: Ceria in platelet form stores more oxygen than nanocrystalline form

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three dimensions are not necessarily better than two. Not where ceria is concerned, in any case. Ceria is an important catalyst. Because of its outstanding ability to store oxygen and release ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

High dose of oxygen enhances natural cancer treatment

A technique Michael Jackson reportedly used to prolong his youth is showing promise as a way to boost the effectiveness of a natural cancer remedy.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tracing the traces: Nanogram concentrations of a toxic compound detected in chlorinated tap water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking water can transmit a number of diseases, including typhoid, dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea, which can then spread explosively throughout an entire service area. To avoid this problem, drinking ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Extra pores on plants could ease global warming: Japan study

Japanese researchers said Thursday they had found a way to make plant leaves absorb more carbon dioxide in an innovation that may one day help ease global warming and boost food production.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 5

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 3

Discovery may lead to powerful new therapy for asthma

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found that a single enzyme is apparently critical to most allergen-provoked asthma attacks — and that activity of the enzyme, known as aldose reductase, can ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Selenium intake may worsen prostate cancer in some, study reports

BOSTON--Higher selenium levels in the blood may worsen prostate cancer in some men who already have the disease, according to a study by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute the University of California, San Francisco.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0