Sentences with phrase «little studied chemical»

Johns Hopkins scientists say a previously known but little studied chemical compound targets and shuts down a common cancer process.

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«These structures work more or less like little rockets,» says chemical engineer Giuseppe Battaglia, also of University College London, and the study's senior author.

Since the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have studied how communities of bacteria that grew exponentially after the disaster helped to eat away at the vast range of chemicals there, but little was known about the genetic underpinnings of the process.

Most broad population studies comparing lab workers with nonlab workers show little overall increase in the risk of pregnancy complications or birth defects, although one study showed a tendency toward low birth weights and shorter gestational lengths in cases where either parent worked in a chemical factory.

«We are now seeing the potential long - term health consequences of introducing chemicals whose safety we know very little about,» said Jonathan Chevrier, an environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who did not participate in the new study.

«We see chemical eye injuries in the little kids all the time,» said Dr. Roberto Warman, a pediatric ophthalmologist at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, who wasn't involved in the study.

One study from the University of California, Irvine, found that a brief workout can improve memory in older men and women (50 to 85 years old) due to the enhanced release of the hormone norepinephrine, which is an important chemical messenger in the brain, while another study from the Georgia Institute of Technology has proven that working out regularly for as little as 20 minutes can boost the long - term memory by around 10 %.

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That 1974 chart - topper from Canada's little sparrow, Nancy White, kept running through my brain as I read about the latest study on dust bunnies that indicates that «a persistent and bioaccumulative flame retardant» known as Dechlorane Plus (more on this chemical in TreeHugger here) can be found in household dust.