According to Henry Scowcroft of Cancer Research UK writing in The Guardian: “Large studies have repeatedly shown that, with the possible exception of vitamin D, antioxidant supplements have negligible positive effect on healthy people, at least in terms of important …
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Chemistry news as a ten pack: Slinn Pickings
Posted by Robert Slinn
on February 14, 2011
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U of Alberta researcher discovers potential cancer therapy target – One of the most important genes in the human genome is called p53 and its function is to suppress tumours, according to Roger Leng, a researcher in the Faculty of …
Slinn Pickings: nanoparticles
Posted by Robert Slinn
on February 3, 2011
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NIST technique controls sizes of nanoparticle clusters for EHS studies – NIST researchers have demonstrated for the first time a method for producing nanoparticle clusters in a variety of controlled sizes that are stable over time. The technique can be …
Antioxidant backlash
Posted by David Bradley
on October 27, 2010
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UPDATE: Jan 2011 Apparently, this post was quoted in Newsweek and caused a bit of a shit-storm among the alternative medicine quacks who went on to quote me totally out of context revealing that they themselves hadn’t read this post …
