Sep 14, 2017 02:42 AM
Hunt for element 119 to begin this year
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/hunt...77.article
EXCERPT: The search for element 119 will begin in December 2017, researchers have announced. Riken director Hideto En’yo made the announcement at the SHE 2017 conference in Poland, and predicted that both elements 119 and 120 will be discovered within five years....
Virginia Tech biochemists dip into the health benefits of olives and olive oil
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/09/0...lives.html
EXCERPT: [...] A Virginia Tech research team discovered that the olive-derived compound oleuropein helps the body secrete more insulin, a central signaling molecule in the body that controls metabolism. The same compound also detoxifies another signaling molecule called amylin that over-produces and forms harmful aggregates in type 2 diabetes. In these two distinct ways, oleuropein helps prevent the onset of disease....
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/hunt...77.article
EXCERPT: The search for element 119 will begin in December 2017, researchers have announced. Riken director Hideto En’yo made the announcement at the SHE 2017 conference in Poland, and predicted that both elements 119 and 120 will be discovered within five years....
Virginia Tech biochemists dip into the health benefits of olives and olive oil
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/09/0...lives.html
EXCERPT: [...] A Virginia Tech research team discovered that the olive-derived compound oleuropein helps the body secrete more insulin, a central signaling molecule in the body that controls metabolism. The same compound also detoxifies another signaling molecule called amylin that over-produces and forms harmful aggregates in type 2 diabetes. In these two distinct ways, oleuropein helps prevent the onset of disease....