Scientists are developing techniques to turn waste glycerol from biofuels into high-value hydrogen gas, writes Michael Pollitt
... of their life span advantage. However, Longo and colleagues believe that the "glucose to glycerol" switch represents only a component of the protective systems required for the extended survival. The ...
... restriction in extending the life span of simple organisms. Researchers show that yeast cells maintained on a glycerol diet live twice as long as normal -- as long as yeast cells on a severe caloric- ...
... difference with DNA. The five carbon sugar commonly found in DNA, called deoxyribose, is substituted by glycerol, which contains just three carbon atoms.
Chaput has had a long-standing interest in ...
... food dyes (red, blue, yellow, and green) purchased at local markets are mixed into a 60% glycerol/water solution and are separated on 1% agarose gels. Mixed colors are separated into primary colors ( ...
... than ethanol.
"With fundamental research, we have identified the pathways and mechanisms that mediate glycerol fermentation in E. coli," Gonzalez said. "This knowledge base is enabling our efforts ...
... has the same quality as the commercial algae product."
After growing the algae in the crude glycerol, researchers can use it as an animal feed. This mimics a process in nature in which fish, the ...
... case. They knocked-out two thermogenic genes in mice, Ucp1 (mitochondrial uncoupling protein) and Gdm (glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase) and then fed the mice a high-fat diet while rearing them at ...
... using lactate or amino acids to match the reduction in glucose formation from glycerol.
"This observation is reminiscent of 'hepatic autoregulation' by which endogenous glucose production remains ...
New catalytic process converts waste glycerol directly into methanol fuel
... paint. Until now, 1,3-propandiol has always been chemically synthesized, but it can also be derived from glycerol by certain micro-organisms. Clostridium diolis bacteria, for example, can produce a ...
... in water while the reaction is happening, and some of the most interesting of these -- like the reactions needed to upgrade glycerol and cellulose into chemicals and fuels -- occur in water."
... in the liver and used as energy in the body. Glucose can be formed from lactate, amino acids or glycerol.
In order to determine how diet affects glucose production and utilization in the liver, the ...
... Chemistry B, 2008, 112, 15980-15990.
** M.T. Cicerone and C.L. Soles. Fast dynamics and stabilization of proteins: Binary glasses of trehalose and glycerol. Biophysical Journal 2004, 86, 3836-3845.
... Pat Schlievert, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology, and-co-investigator, researched Glycerol Monolaurate (GML), a naturally occurring compound that the FDA recognises as safe. It is ...
