Spice healer
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Researchers have found that the biologically active components of turmeric, an orange-yellow powder from an Asian plant, Curcuma longa, have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties with potential activity against cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and other chromic diseases. Curcumin might provide an inexpensive alternative to mainstream pharmaceuticals if it overcomes a multitude of developmental hurdles and safety issues.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2007
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Best-kept secrets: Quantum cryptography has marched from theory to laboratory to real products
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Charles Bennett and his colleagues John A. Smolin and Gilles Brassard at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory demonstrated a new cryptography based on the principles of quantum mechanics in 1989. By the 21st century, the new method of encryption represents the first major commercial implementation for what has become known as quantum information science, which blends quantum mechanics and information theory.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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Researchers ponder how to procure ES cells without destroying embryos
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A brief description on how the several proposals would let scientists obtain precious embryonic stem cells without harming embryos in the process is presented. Two Columbia University researchers have circulated a pragmatic idea of plucking living Embryonic Stem cells from the many embryos produced in vitro, which have died spontaneously.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2005
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