Sentences with phrase «damaging chemicals for»

Apples, strawberries, raspberries, and grapes are all sprayed with far too many carcinogenic, hormone disrupting, brain - damaging chemicals for me to recommend the conventional version.

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Well casings have cracked, and sometimes pumping in more concrete for a «squeeze job» to stop the escaping water and chemicals won't stop the damage.

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@Chad: I. Mutations in DNA sequences generally occur through one of two processes: A. Environmental factors: DNA damage from environmental agents such as ultraviolet light (sunshine), nuclear radiation or certain chemicals B. Mistakes that occur when a cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division.

High - pressure processing (HPP) technology creates an all - natural and safe process for preserving foods through the use of high - pressure cold water instead of heat, chemicals or other processes that can damage natural flavours.

It is common for people to wear their jewellery when they are coming into contact with chemicals, creams and liquids without realising they could be damaging it.

«For 80 percent of the common chemicals in everyday use in this country we know almost nothing about whether or not they can damage the brains of children, the immune system, the reproductive system, and the other developing organs,» said Dr. Phil Landrigan, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

This high - quality fabric wrap is perfect for use in and around the water because it dries easily and won't become damaged by exposure to chemicals like those found in swimming pools.

The reason for this is that many products have chemicals which can cause a lot of damage to a growing baby.

There, Valerie was given the cooling cap treatment for four days, preventing the chain chemical reaction that causes more brain damage.

Britain's # 50 Billion chemical industry has stated fracking for shale gas is of economic importance to the country, will protect jobs and can be done in a safe way that does not damage the environment.

But the chemical has since 1995 been ruled as unsafe in food for human consumption because it is capable of causing damage to one's DNA which can potentially lead to the formation of malignant tumours.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

According to a statement on the village website, if approved, the village can not sue the companies for their role in contaminating three wells with PFOA, but the village can still seek damages and pursue other claims associated with contamination in alternate water sources, and if chemicals other than PFOA are found.

Despite the long gap since then, mean concentration of the chemicals in the blubber of some populations of Europe's killer whales exceeds — often by a lot — a high threshold for health damage.

Mice that were genetically altered to lack Nppb or in which the receptor for the chemical was damaged were impervious to itch - inducing chemicals — but still sensed pain and heat.

Eventually, scientists might even be able to learn how to re-modify damaged genes to reduce the risk for diseases, and the finding could help researchers identify chemical compounds and foods that fight disease by repairing those genes.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

For instance, recent research has shed light on a group of chemicals in the brain that naturally dampen the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to stress hormones.

Ian Baldwin of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and colleagues have now discovered that the mix of GLVs produced by a tobacco plant damaged by a caterpillar and one damaged in the absence of caterpillars were subtly different.

It turns out that the chemical that gives chili peppers their kick, capsaicin, is also responsible for soothing several forms of pain from aching muscles or damaged nerves.

Although important for initiating inflammatory responses to bacteria, continued production of this chemical can damage tissue.

Now there may be a better tool for nailing these chemical culprits: a simple urine test that can track an indicator of free - radical damage following bypass surgery or heart attack therapy.

Mutations occur, for example, when cells copy their DNA incorrectly or fail to repair damage from chemicals or radiation.

To try to get a better handle on free - radical damage, Garret FitzGerald and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia developed a test for urine levels of 8 - epi PGF - 2 -, a chemical formed after free radicals such as peroxide and superoxide attack the common lipid arachidonic acid.

Tilivalline itself lacks the DNA - damaging activity of its antitumor antibiotic relatives because the chemical site crucial for DNA interference is blocked.

«The electro - chemical stability of the electrolyte we are using here can withstand three volts, whereas many solid electrolytes previously studied are damaged at the same voltage,» says Arndt Remhof, a researcher at Empa and leader of the project, which is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research on Heat and Electricity Storage (SCCER - HaE).

Stand - off detection is a chemical and biological compound identification method using a laser that takes place at a distance from people to reduce the potential for damage.

Researchers at the Ruhr - Universität Bochum have found a way to turn climate - damaging CO2 into an alcohol that could serve as a raw material for the chemical industry — without producing large amounts of salt waste that usually arise.

But as New Scientist went to press, they looked unlikely to agree to any cuts in methyl bromide, a chemical that may be responsible for 10 per cent of the damage and has numerous safe substitutes.

The Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance, based in Geneva, will provide emergency technical assistance to countries that would not otherwise be able to contain or monitor damage from disasters such as oil spills and chemical accidents.

Damage to proteins, which are essential for all the chemical reactions within the cell, could also have dire consequences.

As industry moves away from toxic or environmentally damaging solvents, supercritical carbon dioxide may be an ideal replacement medium for nonpolar or weakly polar chemical processes.

They find that even if ozone - damaging chemicals (chiefly CFCs) are phased out in line with current international agreements, the amount of chlorine - bearing material in the stratosphere will continue to increase for several decades.

They will also screen for chemicals that can stop or even reverse the damage diabetes does to β cells.

Existing techniques for transferring such thin films from a substrate rely on a process called chemical etching, but the chemicals involved in that process can damage or contaminate the film.

But Zuo is the first to analyze foreign banknotes for contamination and the first to employ a new method of gas chromatography, which detects the chemical signature of the drug without damaging the actual money, to do the analysis.

Scientists have for the first time found a way to revive proteins damaged by heat or chemicals.

In that short window, they send chemical signals that instruct the mouse's own cells to repair the damage caused by MS.. This realization could be important for therapy development.

On the drinking - water front, researchers from IBM, Central Glass, Ltd., of Japan, the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia, and the University of Texas at Austin are developing a new type of membrane that is resistant to damage by chlorine (the chemical most often used prevent bacterial growth in water supplies) and designed to filter out salts and harmful toxins in water such as arsenic (long - term exposure of which has been linked to cancer and other ailments) potentially creating new sources of drinking water.

«If a person's urine or blood has THS chemicals and biomarkers of liver damage, one can imagine identifying a number of these markers that can be arranged on, say, a strip or a chip which could be used in the physician's office to indicate liver damage allowing for early diagnosis and potential treatment,» Martins - Green said.

These treatments also have potential for treating nerve damage resulting from chemical weapons such as sarin, nerve gas and other chemical agents.

They paid for carbon off sets under the World Bank Clean Development Mechanism, to stop climate damaging chemical plants that were never built, or built only to not produce a certain powerful greenhouse gas.

Other genetic diseases include Tay - Sachs disease (damage to the gene for the enzyme hexosaminidase A leads to an accumulation of a chemical in the brain that destroys it), sickle cell anemia (improper coding of the gene that produces hemoglobin), hemophilia (lack of a gene for a blood - clotting factor) and muscular dystrophy (caused by a defective gene on the X chromosome).

For patients with spinal cord injuries, chemical reprogramming promises to repair their damaged neural pathways.

The problem is that the active chemical environments needed for artificial photosynthesis are damaging to the semiconductors used to capture solar energy and power the device.

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.

Other uses of new chemical technologies include tracers and reporters for geomapping and well connectivity, as well as different types of fluid loss agents that prevent formation damage or keep well integrity, and smart and stimuli - responsive nanoparticles that can be used for improving gelation.

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A report published Monday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ClientEarth shows how a leaked proposal from chemical lobbying groups could damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.