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Why Do We Get Hangovers (and What to Do About It)
in Celebrate Wine, on July 5, 2009
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Douglas Green has a good explanation available for why hangovers happen. The biggest culprit? A toxin called congeners . What to do? Douglas Green has some answers.
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Diamond sensors comes to the aid of modern day soldier
in The RFID Weblog, on January 31, 2009
...lly.
Built on computer chip these sensors would be sensed remotely by RFID and the location of the toxin would be radio backed. Also the day is not far when sensors to detect biological agents and ai...
Celebrity Green Team
in The Celebrities Weblog, on June 12, 2008
... a recent rally attended by Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and other celebrities aimed at eliminating toxins in vaccines.
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FDA Notice on Botox and Its Adverse Reactions
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 12, 2008
...ox, hear ye: the US FDA recently notified the public that Botox and Botox Cosmetic (Botulinum toxin Type A) and Myobloc (Botulinum toxin Type B) have been linked in some cases to adverse react...
More Evidence that Alzheimer's is A Type 3 Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on November 30, 2007
...ember of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center. He had recently identified the toxin that harms the brain in Alzheimer's, the first symptom of which is an inability to store n...
BtCorn Toxins May Harm Stream Ecosystems
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 11, 2007
...nce Foundation suggests that Bt corn- a genetically-modified corn engineered to express a bacterial toxin which is poisonous to corn borers - may damage the ecology of streams draining Bt corn fields ...
Ginger Extract May Treat E. coli Diarrhea
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 1, 2007
...Researchers have demonstrated in an animal study that ginger extract blocked the toxin responsible for diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli . If further studies confirm its efficacy ...
Engineered Protein Against Staphylococcus aureus Toxin
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 23, 2007
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Researchers have engineered a protein which may be counter enterotoxin B, a toxin produced by Staphylococcus aureus , which can cause potentially fatal food poisoning . The purified form of the ...
Snake Venom Toxin Inhibits Human Prostate Cancer Cell Growth
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 16, 2007
...n a recent issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics report on the effectiveness of the snake venom toxin (SVT) Vipera lebetina turanica in the inhibition of androgen -independent prostate ca...
Botox May Ease Writers' Cramps
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 22, 2006
... The use of Botox, a toxin produced by Botulinum bacteria, is most popularly used in dermatological procedures as an anti-wrinkle treatment. Since its discovers, however, more applications have b...
What's in a boil?
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 27, 2006
...d wives' tale that a boil (or skin abscesses) is the body's natural mechanism to push out toxins?
Where I came from, apparently if you had "boil sprouting" at one point then your...
Bt microbe fools biotech experts
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 2, 2006
...nly held scientific view , says checkbiotech.org. It was thought that Bt caused what's called a toxin-mediated disruption, leading to death by starvation or blood poisoning in the insects i...
Nanofiber-reinforced napkin detects toxins
in Nanotechbuzz, on September 12, 2006
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Now detecting the presence of toxins, including viruses, bacteria, biohazards and toxic chemicals, may be as easy as wiping a toxin-detecting napkin across a surface.
Researchers at Cornell Un...
Snail Toxin For Developing Drugs Against Neurological Disorders
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 21, 2006
... Scientists have been able to isolate a "conotoxin", a peptide from the venomous Cone snail Conus omaria (photo) that seems to block the nicotine receptors in the brain. While the...
Botox is Not Just for wrinkles, For Enlarged Prostate Too
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 2, 2006
... Injection of botulinum toxin A, or Botox , into the prostate gland of men with Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or commonly called enlarged prostate, resulted to eased symptoms and improv...
TERI HATCHER REVEALS BEAUTY SECRETS
in The Celebrities Weblog, on March 2, 2006
...t needles, eew.
And, the thought of a needle full of Botox, which is made from botulinum, a deadly toxin, injected around the eyes, oh, double eew.
Last night my wife and I watched, " Lost ,&qu...
Portable Gadgets For Food Safety
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 23, 2006
...biomechanical and microelectronic sensors that can be used to screen for virtually any pathogen or toxin in any produce.
The device is a fluorescent optical biosensor that measures the reaction of...
Rivax, Vaccine Against Bioterrorism Weapon Ricin, Passes Phase 1 Clinical Studies
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 5, 2006
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This entry is submitted by Gloria Gamat, via Creative Reporter . Ricin is a potentially deadly toxin extracted from castor beans which could be used as a bioterrorism weapon. It can be administer...
NYC to monitor diabetics
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 15, 2005
...formation about people who have a disease that is neither contagious nor caused by an environmental toxin. It has also raised privacy concerns in some quarters. ...
Botox Treatments Alleviate Post-Stroke Muscle Spasticity
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 31, 2005
... a year following a stoke may ease muscle spasticity in stroke patients. Injections with botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA) can alleviate patients' immobility, discomfort and pain when moving.
Acco...
Genetically Modified Cotton Field Monitoring
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 20, 2005
... maize and rice, conferring resistance to insects. When pink bollworms feed on the cotton, the Bt toxin is released in their gut and they die, bringing insect population under control, which in turn...
Array Biosensor for Simultaneously Detecting Staphylococcal and Botulinum Toxins in Food
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 22, 2005
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Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) and botulinum toxin A (BotA) are common causes of food poisoning in humans and pose high risk as potential biological warfare agents. In a study published in th...
New Target Found for Parkinson's Disease Therapies
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 24, 2005
...vement. The showed in cultures of rat neurons, how substances that mimic rotenone, an environmental toxin linked to PD, does damage to the microtubules, and how the drug Taxol (Brystol-Myers ...
Quinolinic Acid and Alzheimer�s Disease
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 16, 2005
...r's disease.
In Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, Australian researchers have found a toxin that plays an important role in the progression of the disease.
"We found that all of the...
Botox may help excessive sweating
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 22, 2005
... from a three-year study involving 193 patients found that repeated treatment with Botox (botulinum toxin type A) for severe underarm sweating significantly reduced the amount of sweat produced, accor...
Poison Can Be Good (in small doses)
in Businesspundit, on June 8, 2003
...inogens like dioxin.
Here's the standard technique: Lab animals are exposed to megadoses of a toxin, causing pronounced effects that are readily measured. That yields guesstimates of the human e...