ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sigma-Aldrich , a leading $1.7 billion Life Science and High Technology Company, has enhanced its Bioactive Nutrient Explorer. This Internet-based tool has been specifically designed to help nutrition and animal scientists, medical researchers, biologists, and analytical chemists studying dietary plants and supplements locate the chemicals and kits they need to support their work.
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The improved Bioactive Nutrient Explorer (http://sigma-aldrich.com/nutrition) now includes a searchable database of over 500 plants shown in the scientific literature to have physiological activities in key areas of research, such as cancer, diabetes, metabolism, and other disease or normal states.
The enhanced Bioactive Nutrient Explorer is designed to allow searches for compounds having a similar chemical structure of interest, e.g., flavonoids, or for plants containing a specific compound. Constructed using Adobe(R) Macromedia(R) Flash(R) software, the Bioactive Nutrient Explorer contains ~5,000 products representing ~1,400 chemicals, identifies the compounds found in a specific plant, and arranges them by chemical family and class.
To make the information matrix more robust, Dr. Libby Yunger of Sigma-Aldrich, developer of the Bioactive Nutrient Explorer, reviewed multiple scientific sources for documented physiological actions of herbs that were associated with disease intervention or prevention. “The Bioactive Nutrient Explorer is a unique and valuable resource for scientists investigating nutrition or plant biochemistry, either as their key focus or as an adjunct to their primary research area,” said Vicki Caligur, Product Manager, Specialty Biochemistry.
With this enhancement, the Bioactive Nutrient Explorer now links information about areas of research that impact human health, plants that have demonstrated efficacy in those areas, and a chemical description of these plants. The direct interface with Sigma-Aldrich’s online ordering system allows Sigma-Aldrich to be both a scientific partner and a leading supplier to these scientists with innovative products for plant biotechnology, support for food analysis, and extensive offering of research biochemicals.
About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Its biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing. The Company has customers in life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals, and in industry. Over one million scientists and technologists use its products. Sigma-Aldrich operates in 35 countries and has 7,300 employees providing excellent service worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed to Accelerating Customer Success through Leadership in Life Science, High Technology and Service. For more information about Sigma-Aldrich, please visit its award- winning Web site at sigma-aldrich.com.
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