You may have heard that antioxidants are an important part of your diet – but what are they and what do they do? Generally, antioxidants balance out something called oxidants or free radicals, which ...
Free radicals generated at a specific site in non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes may promote dementia, according to a ...
You may have heard about oxidative stress on social media. A TikTok search offers dozens of videos that claim to break down the complex chemical process and, in some instances, offer up “treatments” ...
‌Oxidative stress is a bodily condition that happens when your antioxidant levels are low. These levels can be measured through your blood plasma. ‌When there is an imbalance of reactive oxygen ...
Dr. Gino DiLabio and doctoral student Hossein Khalilian discuss their research paper about how quantum Coulombic interactions can manage and prevent unwanted cell damage from free radicals. The image ...
One of the central challenges for synthetic chemists is to impose control over free radicals. Highly reactive molecules with an unpaired electron, free radicals may be familiar to you; these are the ...
In a new study published in Global Change Biology, Prof. Zhang Yuanming's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and ...
An imbalance between antioxidant defenses and free radicals in your body causes oxidative stress. This can lead to disease or inflammation, but an antioxidant-rich diet can help prevent oxidative ...