Jul

6

Link Between Pesticides and Parkinson’s Disease

July 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Study Bolsters Link between Pesticides and Parkinson’s. ‘People who have been exposed to pesticides are 70 percent more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than those who haven’t, according to a new study. The results suggest that any pesticide exposure, whether occupationally related or not, will increase a person’s risk of the disease. This means that [...]

Jul

2

Nano pH Meter

July 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Rice scientists make first nanoscale pH meter. ‘Using unique nanoparticles that convert laser light into useful information, Rice University scientists have created the world’s first nano-sized pH meter. The discovery, which appears online this week in the journal Nano Letters, presents biologists with the first potential means of measuring accurate pH changes over a wide [...]

Jun

30

Organic Gel Nanomaterials

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials. ‘Researchers have created organic gel nanomaterials that could be used to encapsulate pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic products and to build 3-D biological scaffolds for tissue engineering. Using olive oil and six other liquid solvents, the scientists added a simple enzyme to chemically activate a sugar that changed the liquids [...]

Jun

30

Plastic from Fructose

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Just One Word: Fructose. ‘Plastic could be made from a common form of sugar instead of petroleum if the industry adopts a new process developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. With concern growing over America’s reliance on finite resources such as oil, there’s mounting pressure to develop renewable sources for traditionally [...]

Jun

26

A New Biofuel: Biobutanol

June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Dupont, BP Set to Market Sugar Beet-Based Biofuel. ‘Chemical maker DuPont said Tuesday it will begin marketing biofuels for the transportation sector next year through a partnership with oil company BP plc. The companies said a collaboration they began in 2003 has advanced to the point where they plan to introduce butanol made from sugar [...]

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