News tagged with tissue products

Parabens in breast tissue not limited to women who have used underarm products

New research into the potential link between parabens and breast cancer has found traces of the chemicals in breast tissue samples from all of the women in the study. Parabens are commonly used as preservatives in cosmetics, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New strategy to accelerate blood vessel maturation has therapeutic potentials for ischemic diseases

Belgian researchers describe a new mechanism to enhance the restoration of the blood flow in ischemic diseases, which are among the leading causes of death worldwide. The team of Massimiliano Mazzone demonstrates that blocking ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover potential new virus in switchgrass

University of Illinois researchers have confirmed the first report of a potential new virus belonging to the genus Marafivirus in switchgrass, a biomass crop being evaluated for commercial cellulosic ethano ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pork meat grown in the laboratory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Eindhoven University in The Netherlands have for the first time grown pork meat in the laboratory by extracting cells from a live pig and growing them in a petri dish.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 53 weblog

3-D research model tackles prostate cancer spread

Shirly Sieh, a PhD student at IHBI, is studying the way cancer cells escape from the prostate through the bloodstream to form tumour colonies, most often in the spine and long bones.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plant Gene Mapping May Lead to Better Biofuel Production

(PhysOrg.com) -- By creating a 'family tree' of genes expressed in one form of woody plant and a less woody, herbaceous species, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Plant biologists discover gene that switches on 'essence of male'

Biologists at the University of Leicester have published results of a new study into plant sex - and discovered that a particular gene switches on 'the essence of male'.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The greenest paper of them all

Wondering which paper towel or toilet paper is the greenest? The nonprofit advocacy group Greenpeace has released a pocket guide to paper products -- an updated version of the old National Resources Defense Council guide. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 3