MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hydrocarbons'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:36 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3723286&cid=t_117303_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Ftips-cut-cancer-risk-holiday-grilling%2F Nutritionist Stephanie Meyers of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute gives some tips to avoid the potential carcinogenic compounds released when you grill meat and some commonsense steps to lower your risk of ingesting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and heterocyclic amines (HCA) (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3723286 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:22:55 +0100 3723286 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625434&cid=t_117303_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F06%2Fscientist-gina-solomon-detail-short-longterm-health-effects-bp-oil-spill%2F Natural Resources Defense Council’s Gina Solomon and the Environmental Protection Agencies Hugh Kaufman discuss the health risks accompanying the massive and still continuing BP oil spill, including exposure to volatile hydrocarbons such as benzene and contamination of the Gulf food chain. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625434 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:51:26 +0100 3625434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232792&cid=t_117303_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2FIxmzcNmRaoU%2F So this is actually old-ish news, but I saw this press release about paper published last year describing the ability of the fungus Gliocladium roseum to naturally synthesizes diesel compounds. The paper from Gary Strobel @Montana State and collaborators describes that G. roseum produces volatile hydrocarbon on cellulose media. Extracts from the host plant (Eucryphia cordifolia) were also able to support growth of the fungus alone. This production of products have been dubbed “myco-diesel”. G. roseum is an endophyte of E. cordifolia I wonder what kinds of advantages it might provide for the fungus or the plant to produce these hydrocarbons. I wonder if it is better to focus on these organisms that have already evolved a way to make these hydrocarbons directly from cellulose ra... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232792 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:57:07 +0100 2232792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=594850&cid=t_117303_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F07%2Fthought-for-the-day-linking-bbq-and-breast-cancer%2F This study is the first to examine lifetime cooked meat consumption and breast cancer risk. Clearly, the findings must be confirmed in other studies of the red meat intake.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments (Source: The Cancer Blog) The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=594850 Mon, 07 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 594850