Breathe right: Indoor air pollutants affecting health, well-being of people working, living in enclosed areas
Sensors could lower public health risks from indoor air pollutants
Author: dhallett
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More nutritious, better tasting, non-GMO ‘orange corn’ launches in US markets
Naturally bred orange corn has abundance of antioxidant carotenoids with ‘nutty, buttery flavor’. The corn was developed through a process known as biofortification to naturally increase the amount of provitamin A carotenoids in corn.
Building self-tests for the world’s most common infectious diseases – with paper
What if patients could reliably test themselves at home and know results in minutes, after less than a couple weeks of an infection?
A handheld diagnostic tool made out of paper already has that speed and would work not only for HIV, but many other infectious diseases. Using it would be like doing your own pregnancy test.
Enlarged prostate could actually be stopping tumor growth, simulations show
Computer simulations show for the first time that when a patient has history of an enlarged prostate, tumors in the prostate barely grow at all.
Cooking chemistry minus heat equals new non-toxic adhesive
A new soy-based adhesive could solve glue’s toxicity problem
International team of physicists continues search for new physics
Dark matter, which is thought to account for nearly a quarter of matter in the universe (but has yet to be observed), has perplexed physicists for decades. They’re constantly looking for something surprising to show up in experiments – results that deviate from the standard model that defines elementary physics.
Drug compound could be next-generation treatment for aggressive form of leukemia
About 19,520 news cases are diagnosed a year, and about 10,670 people a year die from acute myeloid leukemia, according to the American Cancer Society.
Purdue University researchers are developing a series of drug compounds that have shown promise in treating such cases.
Newly consolidated mass spectrometry research cores coordinate biological analysis on campus
Purdue has consolidated three critical research cores in the life sciences to provide easier faculty access and to coordinate complementary services.
Purdue scientists nail down important plant compound pathway
Purdue University plant molecular biochemist Natalia Dudareva and colleagues have described a complete second pathway used by plants to produce phenylalanine, a compound important for all living organisms.
Climate drives link between forest biodiversity and productivity
Some ecologists believe that species richness is positively related to ecosystem productivity, while others conclude that the relationship is bell-shaped or they are unrelated. Using big data, Purdue University scientists now know which theory is correct – all of them.