Microencapsulation has allowed a Costa Rican dairy manufacturer to produce a milk enriched with both omega-3 fatty acids and iron, two normally incompatible compounds. From Nutra Ingredients-USA:
Austrian-based microencapsulation specialist, GAT Food Essentials, is supplying latin America’s largest dairy with an omega-3 form that is allowing the dairy to offer a difficult to achieve, non-chilled [...]
Recent clinical tests have found that curcumin is more rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream when encapsulated in a liposome. This bioactive yellow compound extracted from the curry spice turmeric serves as an antioxidant and may be useful in treating a number of diseases. From Private MD News:
The study, which appears in the American [...]
From Chemie.de:
Imitating photosynthesis in plants? If we were to accomplish this, mankind would have a little less to worry about. Chemists from the University of Würzburg have now made progress on the road to achieving artificial photosynthesis.
The structure that has been developed in the university’s Organic Chemistry laboratory is fascinatingly complex: thousands of similar molecules [...]
From Alibaba:
Danisco Bio Actives has unveiled outstanding initial results using novel encapsulation technology to improve the survival of probiotic cultures at high temperatures and during storage in semi-moist applications.
Trials with an encapsulated Lactobacillus acidophilus culture have found that resistance to temperatures up to 50°C (122°F) increased tenfold when heat treatment was applied for 24 hours [...]
There is a continuing controversy stirring in Bassens, a city in south-western France, surrounding a microencapsulation plant owned by Cerexagri, a division of United Phosphorus Limited. The plant manufactures encapsulated methyl parathion, an insecticide and acaricide which is also extremely hazardous to humans. Parathion usage is banned or restricted in 23 countries, and [...]
From Farmers Weekly Interactive:
“But both Makhteshim (Cinder) and BASF (Stomp Aqua) have been working on a new formulation that uses polymer technology to encase the active ingredient within capsules that are suspended in water.
It is the encapsulation that helps minimise staining and makes rinsing of jugs and cans much easier compared with EC formulations, Sarah [...]
The market research company MarketsandMarkets claims that the food encapsulation will be a $35.4 billion industry by 2014 in their latest pricy market research report. From PR Newswire:
According to a new market research report, ‘Global Food Encapsulation Market’ (2009 – 2014)’, published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com) analyzes the food encapsulation technology, ingredients and packaging market [...]
From Philadelphia Business Journal:
VitaminSpice, which has developed and markets a line of spices and seasonings blended with vitamins, is now a publicly traded company.
The Wayne, Pa., company was bought by Qualsec, a shell company traded on the OTC Bulletin Board, in a reverse merger.
“We pursued the reverse merger strategy to raise funds at higher valuations [...]
New research at UCSB is investigating using RNA-filled gold nanocapsules with a peptide-lipid coating to fight cancer cells. The nanoparticles are introduced into the cell using a pulsed near-infrared laser. From Nanowerk:
“The scientists used cancer cells from mice, and grew them in culture. They then introduced gold nanoshells, with a peptide-lipid coating, that [...]
NASA has released a report on their investigations into microencapsulation of targeted cancer drugs. This research was conducted in space, on the International Space Station. Here’s a link (pdf) to the full NASA ISS research report. And here’s a blub from the press release:
“Another experiment produced a potential medical advance, demonstrating a [...]