Organic chemists are mostly deranged – and that's on a good day. Because simply learning how to name the chemicals they work with is tough stuff. But every so often we'll see a name – or two – that ...

A team of South Korean scientists have succeeded in engineering the bacterium E. coli to produce the industrial chemical putrescine. The research provides a renewable alternative to the production of ...

The supply chain that brings meat to market worldwide is highly complex and usually very efficient. But when disruptions in one part of the world can result in transportation delays an ocean and a ...

"Fertility: Putrescine water may be fountain of youth for human eggs." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 11 / 121126131124.htm (accessed April 6, 2026).

Putrescine and cadaverine, the two most frighteningly named of all chemicals, lurk in our mouths all day, every day. This simple fact emerged in 2003 when Professor Michael Cooke, of the centre for ...

In this video I carry out a desctructive distillation to produce putrescine. Putrescine is a useful molecule used in the production of Nylon. This is a more of a proof of concept than a useful method ...

A critical reason why women experience fertility problems as they get older was discovered by an Ottawa scientist. The breakthrough by Dr. Johné Liu also points to a simple solution that could ...

This press release is available in French. Ottawa — An Ottawa scientist has discovered a critical reason why women experience fertility problems as they get older. The breakthrough by Dr. Johné Liu, a ...