Tag Archives: antioxidants

Chemistry news as a ten pack: Slinn Pickings

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 14, 2011 Comments Off

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 …

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Slinn Pickings: nanoparticles

Posted by Robert Slinn on February 3, 2011 Comments Off

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 …

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Antioxidant backlash

Posted by David Bradley on October 27, 2010 Comments Off

More  research is needed into antioxidants found in plants, which may actually aggravate health conditions rather than benefiting people who eat them. Specifically, quercetin and ferulic acid have been shown to aggravate kidney cancer in severely diabetic laboratory rats, according …

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