“We’re able to weather that storm.” These red pigments are similar to ones produced by Monascus purpureus, a type of fungus used to make a fermented rice dish that people have consumed for ...

They are builders, miners, carpenters and farmers. And despite a mostly undeserved reputation for being a stinging pest, Australian ants do an extraordinary amount of environmental heavy lifting.

Statin is produced by a yeast known as Monascus purpureus. According to Mount Sinai, red yeast rice contains compounds known as monacolins. One of these, monacolin K, shares the same chemical ...

These epidemiologic patterns highlight the limitations of focusing on genetics alone. Although the Human Genome Project greatly expanded our understanding of hereditary contributions to disease ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine have developed a gum made from bean power that can trap the influenza virus and apparently viruses that cause herpes in a lab.

Their latest creation relies on a similar approach but uses a different plant that’s native to sub-Saharan Africa and commonly eaten in tropical areas: Lablab purpureus, also known as the lablab ...

The team looked at neutralizing herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and influenza A strains (H1N1 and H3N2) through a clinically loaded chewing gum made with lablab beans (Lablab purpureus).

The gum developed by Henry Daniell, W.D. Miller Professor at Penn Dental Medicine, harnesses a naturally occurring antiviral protein called FRIL, found in lablab beans (Lablab purpureus).

The clinical-grade chewy is made from lablab bean powder, ground from the seeds of the Lablab purpureus species, which contain a natural viral trap protein called FRIL. In experiments using a ...

“Controlling transmission of viruses continues to be a major global challenge,” said Daniell in a recent statement. “A broad spectrum antiviral protein (FRIL) present in a natural food product (bean ...

Made from Lablab purpureus, which naturally contain an antiviral trap protein called FRIL, the gum was shown in a study to neutralize two herpes simplex viruses (HSV-1 and HSV-2) and two influenza ...