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Use Natural Plant Dyes to Infuse Memories Onto Fabrics
Dyers say pigments can imprint a favorite color on clothing, quilts or even yarn and give them a way to connect with nature ...
I gave up artificial food dyes for a month. It was harder than I thought.
Pickles, sports drinks and the candy I use to reward my potty-training toddler all contain synthetic food dyes. Here's what I ...
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Limited Tyrosine Utilization Explains Lower Betalain Contents in Yellow than in Red Table Beet Genotypes
These pigments are major sources of natural food dyes in the United States. Decades of table beet breeding efforts have increased betalain pigmentation, but yellow betaxanthin accumulation has been ...
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Mechanism of Cyanine5 to Cyanine3 Photoconversion and Its Application for High-Density Single-Particle Tracking in a Living Cell
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Scientists recreate lost recipes for a 5,000-year-old Egyptian blue dye
For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The ...