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16 matches found for "Indigo"

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Novel Indirubinderivatives as potent antitumor-agents

Indirubin is a structurally isomeric compound of Indigo and is, for example, found in plants which are used for treatment of leukemia in traditional chinese medicine. The mode of action of indirubin ...

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Glucose facilitates the use of natural indigo

Indigo is a vat dye and it needs to be reduced to its water-soluble leuco-form before dyeing. This allows the actual dye to pass on to textile fibres. Glucose is known to be a good reducing agent, and...

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New techniques improve imaging quality, not diagnosis of Barrett's esophagus

Researchers from the study found that the image quality of magnified images of BE that are obtained with new imaging techniques was preferred both by expert and by non-expert endoscopists. However, th...

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Centuries-old Maya Blue mystery finally solved

Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, mural...

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They Were Right After All

Drugs derived from cinchona bark, known as cinchona alkaloids, have been used in healing from ancient times. The most prominent representative of this group is quinine, a bitter substance contained in...

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Helping Parkinson's disease sufferers live a better life

A degenerative disease of later life with widely varying symptoms, Parkinson's disease (PD) can result in poor mobility or paralysis, speech disorders and depression, causing people to drop out o...

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Every mammal has its own pneumocyst parasite

The progressing AIDS epidemic has prompted a revival of interest in pneumocytosis, a respiratory infection which appears only in immunodepressed humans and can be fatal if treatment is not give...

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Unusual mechanism of the Ambrym and Pentecost

An earthquake shook the South-West Pacific islands of Ambrym and Pentecost on 26 November 1999. It was the strongest thrust event ever recorded in central Vanuatu. Offshore and onshore data gat...

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Malaria: Plasmodium togetherness a strategy for breeding success

Malaria is a pernicious public health problem in many areas of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa, where cases recorded represent over 90% of the world total, is particularly badly hit. Modelling by...

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Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize

Erosion of genetic diversity of crop plants has for several decades been making it necessary to develop initiatives for protecting these plant resources. One strategy is in-situ conservation of...

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A cushion of air trapped under the rice fields of Senegal

Irrigation by surge flooding, a technique used essentially in rice cropping, involves the input of large volumes of water. In some regions, this water does not infiltrate to any depth. Poor inf...

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U-Iowa scientists gain insight on how enzyme uses oxygen to produce useful chemicals

When it comes to visual entertainment, three-dimensional viewing can be quite eye-opening. So, too, in science where a recent finding involving University of Iowa researchers used three-dimensi...

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Unique project will disclose knowledge about useful African plan

In the Kenyan capital of Nairobi African and European researchers have launched an ambitious international `information mobilisation`-project to disclose the existing knowledge of useful plants...

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Cancer Patients Can Be Endangered By `Alternative Cures` On The Web

Internet websites promoting `alternative` cures for cancer can seriously harm patients who follow their advice . And some are downright dangerous – according to an editorial published today in ...

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Frozen ’lake’ beneath Antarctica ideal to test sterile drilling techniques

UC Berkeley scientist urges drilling into frozen lake under ice near South Pole as prelude to drilling into subglacial lakes in Antarctica and into Mars polar caps Measurements...

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