Your body creates ammonia when it breaks down protein from foods. Ammonia contains nitrogen, which mixes with other elements in your body, including carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, to form urea. Urea is ...

Removing urine from wastewater and using it as fertilizer has the potential to decrease nutrient loading in water bodies and boost sustainability by making use of a common waste material. In excess, ...

About the only use modern humans have for their urine is in health screenings. But preindustrial workers built entire industries based on the scientific properties of pee. Photo by Turbotorque via ...

In the U.S., people eat more protein than they need to. And though it might not be bad for human health, this excess does pose a problem for the country’s waterways. The nation’s wastewater is laden ...

L. Gerardo Herrera M., Nicte Ramírez P. and Leticia Mirón M. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology: Ecological and Evolutionary Approaches Abstract We determined the effect of water and nitrogen ...

Benzoate and phenylbutyrate are widely used in the treatment of urea cycle disorders, but detailed studies on pharmacokinetics and comparative efficacy on nitrogen excretion are lacking.

A BUN test measures the level of urea nitrogen in the blood using a standard blood sample. Abnormal BUN levels may indicate problems with liver or kidney functioning. BUN stands for blood urea ...

A trio of African students have developed a way to turn pee into energy. At the fourth annual Maker Faire, the girls aged 14 to 15 debuted their urine-powered generator. The liquid waste invention is ...

If it is done, India will not need to import fertiliser, he claimed, addressing a gathering of young innovators at the Mayor Innovation Awards function of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. Nagpur: ...

LITTLE attention in the past has been paid to an understanding of the significance of an abnormally low level of urea in the blood. The major portion of the published literature discussing levels of ...