NAPA, Calif., Nov. 19 — The wine industry certainly has welcomed the recent disclosures that a compound in red wine improves the health and endurance of laboratory mice.
In 1894 British physicist Henry Mallock calculated that a compound eye with the same resolution as human central vision would have a radius of 6 metres (19 feet).
One possible explanation for such benefits is that a compound called allicin, the main biologically active component of garlic, blocks enzymes that play a role in bacterial and viral infections.
Scientists said they suspected that a compound in grapefruit inhibits an enzyme known as CYP 3A4, thus increasing the level of substances that are normally metabolized by 3A4, including estrogen.
For many decades, we have known that a compound called vanillin plays a large role in determining our sense of vanilla, but the beany aroma that often makes high-quality vanilla seem full-flavored had long eluded science.
Scientists had known that a compound called luciferase produced the firefly's glow.
The final probability that a compound is active is a product of all descriptor based probabilities [39].
The paper reported that a compound isolated from a pepper plant killed cancer cells without harming healthy cells.
Prior to a backward blocking causal judgment procedure (AB+, A+), we trained participants that a compound of one causal and one non-causal cue leads to the outcome, but that a compound of two causal cues leads to no outcome.
However, the inference that a compound must lie in one of these "outlier" regions in order to possess antibacterial activity is not supported by our analysis.
False positive means, for example, that a compound is assumed to be a borderline chemical although, in reality, it is not.
