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Helping good bacteria reach their target | Chemistry World

November 7, 2012 – 11:03 am

Helping good bacteria reach their target | Chemistry World - Most probiotic bacteria that are added to foods, such as yoghurt, to aid the digestive system are not reaching their intended target in the intestine. Instead, the majority are being destroyed in the stomach before they can do any good. Now, UK scientists have come up with a coating to overcome this problem.(10.1039/c2tb00126h)

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Remarkable enzyme points the way to reducing nitric acid use in industry

September 21, 2012 – 10:00 pm

Remarkable enzyme points the way to reducing nitric acid use in industry - An enzyme in the bacterium that causes potato scab could help create new, environmentally-benign biocatalysts with the potential to cut use of the highly corrosive chemical nitric acid. Chemists at the University of Warwick in the UK, in collaboration with researchers at Cornell University in the USA, have reported in the journal Nature Chemical Biology the discovery of an enzyme in the bacterium Streptomyces scabies that catalyses an aromatic nitration reaction.(10.1038/nchembio.1048)

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Fruit juice infused chocolate to reduce fat consumption | Chemistry World

September 8, 2012 – 6:04 pm

Fruit juice infused chocolate to reduce fat consumption | Chemistry World - Fruit juice has been used by scientists in the UK to replace up to half of the fat content from cocoa butter and milk fats in milk and white chocolate. Stefan Bon and his colleagues at the University of Warwick made a water-in-oil emulsion to replace the fat by adding fruit juices, water with added vitamin C or flat coke to chocolate formulations.(10.1039/c2jm34233b)

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