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COPLEY, Ohio, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In the past decade consumer knowledge and concern over the products they put on their skin has dramatically increased. Increasing bodies of research have validated concerns over chemicals and other toxins found in everything from lotions and shampoos to soaps, deodorants, perfumes, lip balms and even salon hair treatments. Skin is our largest organ. It is meant to form a protective barrier against the elements and insulate our internal...

IRVINE, Calif., May 31 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ChromaDex Corporation (OTCBB: CDXC), an innovative natural products company that provides proprietary, science-based solutions and ingredients to the dietary supplement, food & beverage, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries, announced today that it has formed a collaboration with The Scripps Center for Metabolomics to generate tandem mass spectrometry data for compounds from the ChromaDex natural products and phytochemical catalog....

A biotechnical company called Biomar Microbial Technologies, has recently announced its strategy to achieve an annual growth superior to 20%, from 2011 to 2014, based on the intensive internationalization and diversification policy of its Business Units in various business sectors. In like manner, Biomar has just made public the positive results it has obtained from the research carried out on some of their marine compounds to treat Glioblastoma, the most aggressive type of cancer, as well...

In a first-ever comprehensive study of the species origins of nature-derived drugs, it is shown that drug-producing species are concentrated and clustered in a limited number of families, refuting the conventional view that as every nature species produces biologically active molecules, one can find drugs from almost any major block of species groups if one looks for them hard enough. Whether you have a mild headache or you are running a fever, there is a high chance that the drug that is...

Bounty of the sea: Blue-green bacteria produce potentially useful toxin University of Florida researchers have modified a toxic chemical produced by tiny marine microbes and successfully deployed it against laboratory models of colon cancer. Writing today in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, UF medicinal chemists describe how they took a generally lethal byproduct of marine cyanobacteria and made it more specifically toxic — to cancer cells. When the scientists gave low doses of the...

Dr Xing-Cong Li has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the new open access journal Research and Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, published by Dove Medical Press Auckland, New Zealand (PRWEB) July 09, 2011 Dove Medical Press has announced the appointment of Dr Xing-Cong Li as the Editor-in-Chief of the new journal Research and Reports in Medicinal Chemistry. This international, peer-reviewed open access journal will publish original research, reports, reviews and commentaries on all areas...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A natural product called DLPC (dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine) increases sensitivity to insulin and reduces fatty liver in mice, leading Baylor College of Medicine researchers to believe it may provide a treatment for prediabetic patients. DLPC is an unusual phospholipid and a trace component of the dietary supplement lecithin.Dr. David D. Moore, professor of molecular and cellular biology at BCM, and his colleagues at first thought that DLPC would provide a useful tool...

A natural product called DLPC (dilauroyl phosphatidylcholine) increases sensitivity to insulin and reduces fatty liver in mice, leading Baylor College of Medicine researchers to believe it may provide a treatment for prediabetic patients. DLPC is an unusual phospholipid and a trace component of the dietary supplement lecithin.Dr. David D. Moore, professor of molecular and cellular biology at BCM, and his colleagues at first thought that DLPC would provide a useful tool in studying the...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) "“ For the first time scientists have accomplished a laboratory synthesis of a rare natural product isolated from the bark of a plant widely employed in traditional medicine. This advance may provide the scientific foundation to develop an effective alternative to commonly prescribed narcotic pain treatments.The study defines a chemical means to access meaningful quantities of the rare natural product conolidine. Based on data from mouse models, the study also suggests...

Novel compound could become an alternative to problematic narcotic analgesicsScientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time accomplished a laboratory synthesis of a rare natural product isolated from the bark of a plant widely employed in traditional medicine. This advance may provide the scientific foundation to develop an effective alternative to commonly prescribed narcotic pain treatments.The study, published May 23, 2011, in an advanced...