When you think of peroxide, you think of those brown bottles from the drugstore. Some people use it like cheap bleach to lighten hair color, but mostly it's poured on wounds as a disinfectant. Going ...

Cancer researchers have homed in on how high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells. Vitamin C breaks down to generate hydrogen peroxide, which can damage tissue and DNA. The new study shows that tumor ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the whole world, causing over 13.75 million confirmed infections and over 589,000 deaths until now. Many broad-spectrum antiviral drugs have been tried in an ...

1. Comparable quantitative determinations of potato catalase can be made in the fresh extracts, if the material is ground with calcium carbonate, the extract diluted immediately with ten parts of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 110, No. 8 (February 19, 2013), pp. 3191-3196 (6 pages) Biologically produced alkanes represent potential ...

Introduction Have you ever wondered how all the food that you eat gets digested? It is not only the acid in your stomach that breaks down your food—many little molecules in your body, called enzymes, ...

When you dab hydrogen peroxide on a cut, that white, fizzling foam is actually a sign that that the solution is killing bacteria as well as healthy cells. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), a compound made up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I report the latest in health, nutrition, wellness and healthy travel. In the past three years, the concept of popping a pill to ...

Several supplement makers say the enzyme catalase can prevent the growth of gray hair Independent researchers say the concept is intriguing but short on clinical evidence Genetics primarily determines ...