Sentences with phrase «chemicals in the environment using»

Gas Detection: Developed a prototype indicator badge to measure the concentration of harmful chemicals in the environment using a catalytic potassium iodide reaction.

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Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....

Chemicals used in conventional food production often leach back into the surrounding environment.

Importantly farming organically improves the environment with no synthetic or chemical herbicides or pesticides used in the growing of the grapes.»

What I find most frightening is that there is no testing to determine what happens when multiple products are used concurrently or sequentially, or what happens when they combine with other chemicals (synthetic and natural) in the environment or in organisms.

There really is no point in using cloth diapers as part of working to create a Green environment if you're putting harsh chemicals into the cloth, then back onto the baby's skin, and into the sewer system.

Organic farming practices ensure no chemicals or pesticides are used in the production of most Equal Exchange products — which protects the farmers, the surrounding environment, birds and other wildlife, as well as the people who enjoy these products.

There are many reasons to use baking soda in your home, but the number one reason is because this is a natural substance that will not harm you, your family, or the environment because is it not a chemical compound that effects nature.

When using too many these pads, you are contributing on destroying the environment due to harsh chemicals in the materials.

The polyurethane foam filling used in most mattresses is produced with numerous toxic chemicals and polutes the environment.

The group Environment Massachusetts is urging Massachusetts lawmakers to enact a ban on fracking even though geologists and the petroleum industry insist the chances are remote the controversial gas drilling technique — where water and chemicals are used to break rock — would ever be used in the Bay State.

Chlordane, toxaphene, DDT and PCBs are all examples of persistent organic pollutants — chemicals that were once widely used in agriculture and manufacturing (or accidentally produced through industrial processes or combustion) but are now banned due to their adverse effects on human health and the environment.

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing

When faced with uncertainties about the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process, the researchers deliberately overestimated the amount of toxic chemicals that would reach the environment to ensure they weren't minimizing fracking's health impacts, Miller said.

The Commission says the Montreal Protocol allows «unlimited» production of CFCs as feedstocks, and puts no limit on trade in used chemicals because recycling is better for the environment than prod - ucing new chemicals.

These keratinocytes were then used to manufacture 3D epidermal equivalents in a high - to - low humidity environment to build a functional permeability barrier, which is essential in protecting the body from losing moisture, and preventing the entry of chemicals, toxins and microbes.

In the current study, Yu - Shang Lee, PhD, of the Cleveland Clinic, together with Jerry Silver, PhD, of Case Western Reserve Medical School, and others, used a chemical that promotes cell growth along with a scar - busting enzyme to create a more hospitable environment for the nerve graft at the injury site.

Achim Steiner of the UN Environment Programme explains why officials from 150 countries are meeting this week to discuss adding nine polluting chemicals, including those used in...

A class of chemicals used as flame retardants in polyurethane foam furniture padding, as well as in car dashboards and computer shells, have been gassing into the environment and turning up in everything from household dust to halibut.

P.V. Ramachandran, professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, and graduate assistant Ameya S. Kulkarni have discovered a way to produce amine - boranes in an open - air environment using cheaper and more plentiful chemicals that have not been used before.

HEALTHY DICHTY CELL: A plump, well - nourished Dictyostelium discoideum cell uses ruffles in its membrane to bring in extracellular fluid, which contains chemical information about its environment.

In particular, concerns that the hydraulic fracturing process (called «fracking») used to capture natural gas could pose a threat to the environment and public health if chemicals used in the operation contaminate underground drinking wateIn particular, concerns that the hydraulic fracturing process (called «fracking») used to capture natural gas could pose a threat to the environment and public health if chemicals used in the operation contaminate underground drinking watein the operation contaminate underground drinking water.

«We are able to go back in time and analyze archived museum earplug samples that were harvested in the 1950s and examine critical issues such as the effects of pollution, use of sonar in the oceans and the introduction of specific chemicals and pesticides in the environment over long periods of time,» Usenko said.

The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties, such as pH. «We hope this is the first of many types of solid - state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI,» Cima says.

Different chemicals used for the field include inhibitors for scaling, fouling, corrosion, asphaltene control, formation damage, differential pressures in multiphase environments which will be met by new synthesis methods including metathesis reactions, bio based feedstocks, new polymer surfactants, living polymers, and nanoparticle.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person is exposed to, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and any other factor that could possibly be involved with the development of schizophrenia.

Environmental Chemistry (ENV): The study of chemical species in the natural environment, including the effects of human activities, such as the design of products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances.

Diversa plans to use the microbe's genetic information to engineer industrial chemicals that work in extreme environments, such as enzymes that break down harmful substances in oil wells.

The excited atoms, in turn, emit signals that can be used to create images of the brain, muscle, and other tissues, which can be distinguished based on the local physical and chemical environment of the water molecules.

chemical ecology The study of how plants and animals use chemicals and chemical signals in their interactions with each other and their environment.

Now, a team from UC Berkeley has found a way to keep them alive and functioning in a synthetic environment, and used them to make mats that can break down toxic chemicals.

«People have been interested in using silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial purposes, but there are lingering concerns about their environmental impact due to the long - term effects of the used metal nanoparticles released in the environment,» says Velev, the INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State and the paper's corresponding author.

These strategies are: (1) physical separation by temporarily converting the two enantiomers into two diastereomers (called resolution); (2) physical separation in a chiral chromatographic environment; (3) chemical discrimination in a chiral environment (using enzymes or other chiral platforms as chemical reagents); and (4) asymmetric synthesis of one enantiomer in preference to the other.

Using its three main science instruments, Odyssey has mapped the global distribution of many minerals and chemical elements across the Martian surface, found evidence of large amounts of buried water ice near the planet's poles and measured the radiation environment in low Mars orbit, which could help NASA plan out future manned missions to the Red Planet.

Lauren uses poison frogs as a model for understanding how variation in predation and spatial structure of the environment has driven the evolution of chemical defences and parental behaviors.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person experiences, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and much, much more.

When using rosemary, you may come across different chemotypes, which simply means that the oil has a unique chemical composition dependent on the environment in which the plant was grown.

Thankfully, we can lower the amount of plastic - related chemicals in our bodies, our homes, and the environment — as well as the risks they pose — by simply using fewer plastics in our daily lives.

Think of all the problems with plastic use in our homes and environment and consider having those plastic chemicals in contact with your body's largest organ for all or part of the day... every single day.

Kate uses organic ingredients in her products without the harmful chemicals that damage our health and our environment.

After all, while there are certainly companies out there making smart choices for human health and the environment, the beauty and personal - care industries — and the chemicals used in their products — remain mostly unregulated.

Everyday we are exposed to hundreds of chemicals in the air, water and our environment, and many more through products we use in our homes and beauty care.

These methods rely on using an acidic medium in liquid to soak the grains, a constructive environment to soak them and let them sprout, or a process like sourdough fermentation to alter the chemical make - up of the grain.

They are pesticides and other toxic chemicals used in the environment that are estrogenic in nature, that is; the body identifies them as estrogen and allows them to attach to estrogen receptor sites in the breast, and other areas.

Both past and current use of these toxic chemicals have already caused many unwanted health effects in people, the environment and animals.

We are constantly exposed to these heavy metals and toxic chemicals in our environment: Mercury can get into our bodies by way of fish, particularly large fish and shellfish; medications, such as thiazide diuretics, prescribed for high blood pressure; vaccines, which may contain thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative; and dental fillings.

Other synthetic chemicals used in food production, and found in our environment, appear to damage the thyroid gland, which secretes hormones that regulate metabolism.

GreenMedInfo — Sayer Ji's Greenmedinfo.com is dedicated to bringing the public information on the science behind natural healing methods, as well as to make available research on the inherent dangers associated with the use of chemicals in our food, drugs, water and environment.

Nylon is a synthetic fabric manufactured using petroleum and treated with several chemicals such as formaldehyde to prevent shrinkage, not to mention, nylon production emits harmful greenhouse gasses that linger in the environment.

Research into the fertility of sheep exposed to endocrine disruptors in the environment by Dr. Michelle Bellingham of the University of Glasgow found that abnormalities that could result in low sperm counts were found in the testes of 42 % of the animals, which led her to suggest that the rise in the use of in - vitro fertilization in humans, particularly as a result of low sperm counts, is due to exposure to these chemicals in the environment.