For instance, Unilever scientists have spent five years working with yeast cells that replicate human taste receptors, and then extracting substances from food to see how they might trigger these receptors.
Lincoln reveals that Danzig suffered from Crohn's disease and was taking iron supplements, which leads Walter John Noblee) to realize that all of the victims were suffering from heavy metal poisoning, and that their killer extracted substances from their blood.
While working with Marie to extract pure substances from ores, an undertaking that really required industrial resources but that they achieved in relatively primitive conditions, Pierre himself concentrated on the physical study (including luminous and chemical effects) of the new radiations.
A new and fast method involving the use of ultrasound energy and moderate temperature has been developed to extract humic substances from marine sediments.
Practitioners of traditional Indian medicine use a process which is a crude equivalent of pyrolysis, to extract oily substances from stem parts of plants and use them in treatment of various ailments.
Therefore, the present study aims to extract bioactive substances from marine sponges species inhabiting Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Egypt in a hope to be used as potential medical agents in several applications (such as; antiviral, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory).
The use of diluted oil in n-hexane relates to a practical aspect, which is the use of this solvent to extract oil substances from water previously sampled from the natural environment to determine the concentration of oil in the natural waters [21].
Corrales et al. (2008) extracted bioactive substances from grape by-products such as anthocyanins which can be used as natural antioxidants or colouring agents.
Some form of biomimicry has been practiced spottily since the onset of civilization, often by primitive tribes extracting curative substances from plants and animals.
