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Study creates bacteria that consume carbon dioxide for growth
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 30 (ANI): Researchers have developed bacteria called Escherichia coli, which consume carbon-di-oxide for energy instead of organic compounds.
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How good are women's hygiene products?
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 30 (ANI): Feminine hygiene products have no doubt become a must-have for several women today but have you ever spared a thought if they are really true to their purpose? If not, here's the answer!
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Scientists develop artificial muscles that bloom, dance, and wave
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 25 (ANI): Researchers have developed an ultrathin, artificial muscle for soft robotics called an actuator.
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Green chemists find a way to produce eco-friendly items
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 18 (ANI): A team of green chemists are working on techniques to produce useful compounds from wood and other fast-growing non-edible plant waste, through a chemical process named xylochemistry.
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Here's why sunscreen is harmful to seawater
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 14 (ANI): Researchers studied how sunscreens release different compounds, such as trace metals and inorganic nutrients into Mediterranean seawater, with unknown effects on marine ecology.
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Sun Pharma signs licensing pact with CSIR-IICT
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said on Wednesday that it has entered into a global licensing agreement with the CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) in Hyderabad for patents related to certain compounds.
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Scientists find new target for Parkinson's disease
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 23 (ANI): Contrary to earlier discovery that a chemical found in a synthetic opioid, MPTP, induced a form of Parkinson's disease, a new study has found that it is an enzyme in the body that can metabolise compounds formed in the brain from alkaloids causing a neur
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Animal testing exercise to be put to an end with this new algorithm
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Apr 17 (ANI): A new study claims to have developed a new high-speed algorithm, which can put an end on the practice of using animals to test the toxicity of chemicals. The algorithm compares tested and untested chemical fragment compounds in order to predict an untest
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Parents your child is carrying evidence of toxins from home flooring, furn
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 18 (ANI): In what could be called worrying news for parents, a new study finds that children living in homes with all vinyl flooring or flame-retardant chemicals in sofas have higher concentrations of potentially harmful semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in
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Cocoa for a healthy heart!
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 27 (ANI): A recent study has reaffirmed that bioactive compounds found in cocoa can keep the heart healthy.
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Is your nail polish toxic-free?
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA] Oct 11 (ANI): Turns out, nail polishes with 'n-free' labels are not necessarily free of toxic compounds.
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Dinosaurs loved perfumes way before you did!
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 8 (ANI): The compounds behind the pleasant fragrance of the perfumes and colognes have been prompting olfactory sensors since the age of dinosaurs, a new research reveals.
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