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  • Bioengineered hair absorbs nutrients, conceptual artwork
  • Red meat : Red meat is a great source of protein and essential nutrients including iron and zinc, however, it is also high in saturated fat, therefore moderation matters.
  • Red meat : Red meat is a great source of protein and essential nutrients including iron and zinc, however, it is also high in saturated fat, therefore moderation matters.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • Nutrient deficiency test / Nutrition Laboratory.
  • 'Byno' Haemoglobin : a blood forming digestive tonic nutrient : September 1912.
  • 'Bioferol' nutrient tonic ... : 'Devegan' for local application in leucorrhoea ...
  • 'Byno' Haemoglobin : a blood forming digestive tonic nutrient : September 1914.
  • 'Byno' Haemoglobin : a blood forming digestive tonic nutrient : September 1911.
  • 'Byno-Cascada' : the ideal tonic laxative and nutrient digestive : April 1916.
  • 'Bynogen' brings health : an improved nutrient and nerve restorative : February 1916.
  • Byno-Cascada : the ideal tonic laxative and nutrient digestive : April 1911.
  • 'Bynotone' : a concentrated nutrient rich in vitamins : June 1925, July 1925, August 1925.
  • 'Bynotone' : a concentrated nutrient rich in vitamins : May 1926, June 1926, July 1926.
  • 'Bynol' the 'Allenburys' malt & oil : an easily digested nutrient and restorative : December 1913.
  • 'Bynogen' brings health : an improved nutrient and nerve restorative : February 1924, March 1924, April 1924.
  • Bynol The 'Allenburys' malt & oil : an easily digested nutrient and restorative : December 1925, January 1926, February 1926.
  • Bynol The 'Allenburys' malt & oil : an easily digested nutrient and restorative : December 1925, January 1926, February 1926.
  • Ovaltine : the tonic, nutritive and digestive properties of "Ovaltine" render it the ideal combination for use in all cases where a building and reconstructive nutrient is required / A. Wander Ltd.
  • Bynin Emulsion : an emulsion of cod liver oil in Bynin liquid malt, with hypophosphites : a nerve food and restorative, easy of assimilation, a concentrated nutrient ... October 1906 ... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Bynin Emulsion : an emulsion of cod-liver oil in Bynin, liquid malt, with hypophosphites : a nerve food and restorative, easy of assimilation ... a concentrated nutrient ... January 1909 ... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • 'Bynin' Emulsion : an emulsion of cod-liver oil in Bynin, liquid malt, with hypophosphites : a nerve food and restorative, easy of assimilation ... a concentrated nutrient ... January 1910 ... / Allen & Hanburys Ltd.
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • Cistus incanus ssp creticus Juss. Cistaceae. Rock Rose. Distribution: Crete. Interesting symbiosis with fungus called Tuber melanosporum which increases nutrient absorption for the plant and inhibits growth of other plants in the vicinity. It is a source of the resin ‘labdanum’ (a.k.a. ‘ladanum’) used in perfumes (similar smell to ambergris), as is Cistus ladanifer. It has no medical uses now, and such use was dwindling even in the 18th century. In the 16th century (Henry Lyte’s 1575 translation of Rembert Dodoen’s Cruydeboeck of 1554) its uses were described (directly copied from Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (70AD)) as: ‘Ladanum dronketh with olde wine, stoppeth the laske [periods], and provoketh urine. It is very good against the hardness of the matrix or mother [uterus] layde to in the manner of a pessarie, and it draweth down the secondes or afterbirth, when it is layde upon quicke coles [hot coals], and the fumigation or parfume thereof be received up into the body of women. // The same applied to the head with Myrrhe and oyle of Myrrhe, cureth the scurffe, called Alopecia, and keepeth the heare [hair] from falling of [sic], but whereas it is already fallen away, it will not cause the heare to growe agayne. // ...' and goes on in this vein about its uses for pain in the ears, and removing sores and scars and other things. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Crab apples (Malus sylvestris) otherwise known as the European apple are a small variety of apple commonly used for the production of jam and wine. They have the reputation of being sour, and therefore do not tend to be eaten raw.
  • Bioengineered sweat gland, conceptual artwork
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