Alireza Abbaspourrad
Youngkeun Joh Assistant Professor of Food Chemistry and Ingredient Technology, Food Science
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243 Stocking Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Alireza [at] cornell.edu
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In food products, the natural blues tend to be moody. A fun food colorant with a scientific name – phycocyanin – provides a vivid blue pigment that food companies crave, but it can be unstable when placed in soft drinks and sport beverages, and then lose its hues under fluorescent light on grocery shelves.
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This change in behavior, called hyperactivation, enables the sperm to sweep the area once in the egg’s proximity, which improves the sperm’s chances of finding it. For the in vitro study, the researchers designed microfluidic chips with micron...