News articles tagged with 'alkaloid'
MIT chemists engineer plants to produce new drugs
— 4 Nov 2010 13:18 | HealthHumans have long taken advantage of the huge variety of medicinal compounds produced by plants. Now MIT chemists have found a new way to expand plants' pharmaceutical repertoire by…
Study: Grass, fungus combination affects ecology
— 16 Mar 2010 08:16 | BiologyThe popular forage and turf grass called tall fescue covers a vast amount of land in the U.S. - an area that's estimated to be larger than Virginia and Maryland combined - and a new…
A newly discovered chemical weapon in poison frogs' arsenal
— 9 Jun 2009 12:28 | BiologyNew research documents a surprising chemical weapon used by some Amazonian poison frogs. The study identified for the first time a family of poisons never before known to exist in these…
Gene-altering compounds released from forest fires
— 4 May 2009 17:54 | ChemistryScientists in Washington State are reporting the first discovery of potent mutagenic substances in smoke from forest fires that often sweep through huge stands of Ponderosa pine in…
Potentially harmful chemicals found in forest fire smoke
— 1 May 2009 17:49 | HealthResearchers have detected common plant toxins that affect human health and ecosystems in smoke from forest fires. The results from the new study also suggest that smouldering fires…
Chemists synthesise herbal alkaloid
— 16 Apr 2009 13:47 | ChemistryThe club moss Lycopodium serratum is a creeping, flowerless plant used in homeopathic medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments. It contains a potent brew of alkaloids that have…
How the plant cell synthesises the pharmaceutical compounds?
— 5 Nov 2008 14:14 | HealthVTT's Research Scientist Suvi Haekkinen (MSc, Tech) has studied in her thesis alkaloid biosynthesis and metabolism in two Solanaceae plants, tobacco and Egyptian henbane. The studies…
Researchers build mini drug-producing biofactories in yeast
— 16 Aug 2008 13:12 | HealthResearchers at the California Institute of Technology have developed a novel way to churn out large quantities of drugs, including antiplaque toothpaste additives, antibiotics, nicotine,…
The secret behind silkworm's hardy stomachs
— 28 May 2008 13:07 | BiologySilkworms have a unique ability to eat toxic mulberry leaves without feeling ill, and researchers have come one step closer to understanding why: silkworms contain a special digestive…
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