New York Times When carnivores eat meat, they are very efficient in extracting its nutrients, Dr. Schlegel said. And some animals that consume foods high in plant fiber — like cows, colobus monkeys and kangaroos — have digestive systems with “foregut” areas in ... and more »
Financial Times When a long-mooted joint venture between Mexichem and Pemex to develop a vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant in eastern Mexico finally got the green light last year, Antonio Carillo knew something had changed. The chief executive of Mexichem, the ... and more »
National Geographic A team of scientists led by Susannah Salter and Alan Walker at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has shown that DNA extraction kits, and other lab reagents commonly used in microbe studies, are almost always contaminated by low levels of microbial ... and more »
Glenwood Springs Post Independent Andrographis (A. paniculata whole plant extract 12:1) is a traditional remedy used in India and Asia as a broad-spectrum natural antibiotic and immune system stimulator to treat bacterial, viral, and parasitic conditions. Multiple studies have shown ...
Yahoo Health Walking through the supplement aisle at your local Whole Foods can be an overwhelming and confusing experience. There is so much health potential lurking on the shelves, but there's also a lot of crap. And, trying to dig through what's right for you is ...
Scotsman AN ENERGY plant would extract gas from under the Firth of Forth which could power around 15 million homes for a year, under plans being drawn up following a...
Mining Innovation Research from the University of Queensland suggests that future mining projects could use biotechnology to extract minerals on projects that are not suitable for traditional mining or on waste ground. University researchers have been exploring the ...
ProHealth It may surprise you to learn that some of the compounds your skin naturally uses to maintain moisture can also be found in . . . wheat. These biologically active moisturizing oils are known as ceramides, whose name derives from Ceres, the Roman goddess ...
swissinfo.ch The Cero Agua dairy factory that opened in western Mexico this week is the globe's only zero-water plant , squeezing 1.6 million liters (422,000 gallons) of the liquid a day out of cow's milk it condenses into powder. That will reduce Nestle's water ... and more »
