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Nomenclature: English not Latin in botanical reports

The decision at last year's International Botanical Congress to allow the use of either Latin or English for botanical descriptions and diagnoses was hailed as a triumph by the community. The ruling c...

Harmonization Eyed For EU Botanical Claim Regs, With Tighter Scrutiny

Two options are touted for botanical claims legislation in the EU – one would continue with the existing process under the European Food Safety Authority’s evaluation of claims for all types of su...

Missouri Botanical Garden receives $3 million from Monsanto Company toward World Flora

(Missouri Botanical Garden) The Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Mo., US has received a generous three-year, three million dollar gift from Monsanto Company to support its work on the developme...

Frutarom botanical raw materials technology soon to begin US production

Frutarom Health patented HyperPure technology deployed at its North Bergen, New Jersey, US plant, will process botanical raw materials from mid November 2012.

More GMP Warnings Likely As Botanicals Fail On Adulteration Awareness

FDA supplement program official Daniel Fabricant says firms that fail to use appropriate tests for botanical ingredients are at risk of eliciting warning letters and other agency actions for violating...

Nestlé forms JV to develop botanical drugs with Chi-Med

Nestlé's health science subsidiary, set up last year, has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Hutchison China MediTech (Chi-Med) aimed at developing prescription medicines from botanical plant origins....

Botanical compound could prove crucial to healing influenza

Building on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida, researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) have discovered that abscisic acid has anti-inflammator...

NYBG scientists identify 81 new plant and fungus species

(The New York Botanical Garden) In a single year, scientists at the New York Botanical Garden discovered and described 81 new species of plants and fungi from around the world. Combining work in the f...

Multi-finger pressing synergies change with the level of extra degrees of freedom.

The purpose of this study was to test the principle of motor abundance, which has been hypothesized as the principle by which the central nervous system controls the excessive degrees of freedom of th...

Hierarchical and multiple hand action representation using temporal postural synergies.

The notion of synergy enables one to provide simplified descriptions of hand actions. It has been used in a number of different meanings ranging from kinematic and dynamic synergies to postural and te...

Cytotoxic effects of polyhexanide on cellular repopulation and calcification of decellularized 
equine carotids in vitro and in vivo.

Purpose: Disinfection of biological implants is indispensable for clinical safety. Here, decellularized equine carotid arteries (dECAs) were disinfected by polyhexanide (PHX), an effective, well-toler...

Building botanical literacy.

Online mentors inspire interest in science while engaging students in thinking about plant biology.

Multi-muscle synergies in elderly individuals: preparation to a step made under the self-paced and reaction time instructions.

We studied multi-muscle synergies of healthy elderly persons during preparation to making a step (self-paced vs. reaction time). The uncontrolled manifold hypothesis was used to explore the organizati...