News tagged with phosphate
Study Finds Treatment With Anabolic Hormone May Enhance Local Bone Regeneration
Dec 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In research that could open new avenues of investigation in the prevention and treatment of fractures, in bone regeneration and tissue engineering, scientists from Yale School of Medicine ...
Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, ...
Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design.
Lake Research That Isn't All Wet
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The federal government may not have been able to save California from massive budget cuts, but at least a stimulus research grant will help scientists understand the biology of western lakes.
Using waste to recover waste uranium
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology ...
What makes stem cells tick?
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Investigators at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made the first comparative, large-scale phosphoproteomic analysis of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) ...
Backtracking on DNA
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Accuracy is essential for life, so in converting the information stored in DNA into a form in which it can be used, a high level of precision is required. Dr Tanniemola Liverpool from the ...
New study reveals the protein that makes phosphate chains in yeast
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Phosphate chains store energy and have many more different functions in a cell.
Research could lead to new non-antibiotic drugs to counter hospital infections
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Lack of an adequate amount of the mineral phosphate can turn a common bacterium into a killer, according to research to be published in the April 14, 2009, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of ...
Virus battery could power cars, electronic devices
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 02, 2009 |
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For the first time, MIT researchers have shown they can genetically engineer viruses to build both the positively and negatively charged ends of a lithium-ion battery.
Chewing gum helps treat hyperphosphatemia in kidney disease patients
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Chewing gum made with a phosphate-binding ingredient can help treat high phosphate levels in dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the ...
Tiny delivery system with a big impact on cancer cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Researchers in Pennsylvania are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast ...
Nontoxic nanoparticle can deliver and track drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A nontoxic nanoparticle developed by Penn State researchers is proving to be an all-around effective delivery system for both therapeutic drugs and the fluorescent dyes that can track their delivery.
Nanoparticles Deliver Their Cargo, Then Disappear
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical researchers are looking at any number of new methods to get drugs to specific locations in the body. Some methods are efficient but less safe, while others are safe but often fail ...
High-normal phosphate levels linked to early atherosclerosis
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Healthy adults with higher levels of phosphate in the blood are more likely to have increased levels of calcium in the coronary arteries—a key indicator of atherosclerosis and future cardiovascular disease risk, reports a ...
