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Citrus peels compound could help diabetics
Citrus fruits may have a compound in their peels that could
help diabetes patients and even prevent the disease, researchers
say. The compound, called emulin, was discovered while
researching the weight-loss properties of grapefruit, WKMG-TV
in Orlando, Fla., reported Sunday. Researchers hope to extract
the compound from the peel of the fruit, then filter and purify
it to make a tasteless substance that acts as a sugar buffer
when added to foods, the station reported. In addition to
speeding the removal of excess sugar from the bloodstream,
Emulin reduces the amount of carbohydrates absorbed after meals
and the amount of glucose manufactured by the liver. "This
product mimics the activity of insulin," A&M metabolics
researcher Joseph Ahrens said. Type-2 diabetic rats fed the
equivalent of a brownie with emulin showed a drop in glucose
by as much as 27 percent. Scientists said if the product is
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, it could
be on the market within two years.
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Gecko makes surprise appearance in egg
An investigation is planned to determine how a gecko got
inside a chicken egg, Australian scientists say. Dr. Peter
Beaumont -- president of the Australian Medical Association
in the Northern Territory -- said he was cracking chicken eggs
for a meal when he found the dead lizard in an otherwise
unblemished egg, The Daily Telegraph said Saturday. "I was
cracking the eggs into a pan when I noticed one of them was
all cloudy. I looked at the shell and saw a tiny gecko," he
said. Beaumont said the animal's carcass was lodged between
the egg's membrane and the shell's interior, indicating the
gecko had not entered the egg after it was cracked. He speculated
the animal might have tried to feed on a chicken embryo by
climbing into a live chicken, only to become trapped in a
developing egg.
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There Must Be More To Mars Than Ice And Dust
We’re only days away from Phoenix’s encounter with the Red
Planet, and all we can think of now is what incredible mysteries
about that planet are about to be revealed. There is one clear
mission that NASA’s Mars Lander has, and that is to either give
hope or eliminate the idea that life on Mars is possible.
The mission will stretch over 90 Martian days, the equivalent
of 92 Earth days, at temperatures of minus 73 C to minus 33 C
(minus 100 F to minus 28 F) and will start at a site in the
north region of the planet. Beyond the soil and icy layer,
scientists expect to determine whether this permafrost region,
covering as much as 25 percent of the Martian surface, is
habitable, as Peter Smith, Phoenix principal investigator at
the University of Arizona, Tucson pointed out. The theories
regarding the Red Planet are contradictory, and while some
give hope that life could exist beyond Earth, others reduce
this possibility to almost nothing. Everything now comes down
to finding two essential compounds of life forms: carbon and
water.Earlier this year, scientists warned that NASA’s Spirit
and Opportunity missions have uncovered what they called a
"life-threatening fact" on the Red Planet: the high
concentrations of minerals constitute a harsh environment even
for the toughest microbes, which is why they considered the
life-on-Mars theory to have only “a ghost of a chance.”
Phoenix’s mission is to hopefully prove them wrong, and
establish whether conditions on the exploration site have ever
been favorable to microbial life. Moreover, the Mars Lander
will try to establish the presence of carbon-based elements
and whether the ice ever melts here, in response to long-term
climate cycles. With the help of instruments onboard, Phoenix
will check for water and carbon-containing compounds by heating
soil samples and examining the resulted vapors. This will be a
key element in establishing if the Red Planet is a setting for
past or future forms of life.
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