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Brazil startup focuses on tomato molecule to treat bad cholesterol
Publicado em 26 agosto 2021
Researchers from the São Paulo startup Crop Biotecnologia have developed a platform to express peptides (amino acid molecules that make up proteins) in tomatoes for the treatment of chronic diseases.
Through the platform, the researchers have already obtained a peptide for the oral treatment of cholesterol. They say it inhibits PCSK9 - a molecule that degrades receptors in the liver responsible for capturing bad cholesterol (LDA) from the bloodstream.
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New plastic film "deactivates Coronavirus in just 15 minutes"
Publicado em 11 fevereiro 2021A scientific collaboration including the companies Nanox, AplFilm, Braskem and the UFSCar (Brazil) and Jaume I of Castellón (Spain) universities has presented a plastic film which they claim has the potential to deactivate 99.99% of the novel coronavirus in just 15 minutes. This product, AlpFilm Protect PVC, is already available commercially. The transparentt PVC film including silver microparticles has now formed the basis of the technology patented by Nanox with the assistance of the [...]ver notícia