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The study of microorganisms
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Listeria outbreak spurs food safety overhaul
Published August 28, 2008, 6:19 am, Hamilton Spectator
Ottawa will hire more food inspectors and may allow irradiation of meat to reduce bacteria that causes food-borne diseases such as the deadly outbreak of listeria linked to ready-to-eat meats.
Biotech grants go to ASU, WCU professors
Published August 27, 2008, 9:21 pm, Asheville Citizen-Times
Grant requests from bioscience faculty at the two mountain-based universities produced nearly one-third of the $540,000 total distributed to support science curricula at a dozen of the state’s colleges and universities.
Panel to unravel killer virus mystery
Published August 27, 2008, 12:40 pm, HT via Yahoo! India News
THE HEALTH Department has established a scientific committee to unravel the mystery over the virus that is preying upon children in the districts of East Uttar Pradesh. Secretary, Health, Prashant Trivedi, told Hindustan Times on Tuesday that a committee under the chairmanship of Milind Gore of the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, had been set up to find the virus that had infected ...
National Library of Medicine Accepts First Online Video Journal for Indexing in MEDLINE and PubMed
Published August 27, 2008, 11:28 am, Newswise
National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has accepted Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) for indexing in the official repositories of the scientific literature MEDLINE and PubMed.
Discovery Offers Potential For Drugs To Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics
Published August 27, 2008, 5:16 am, Medical News Today
Researchers at Rutgers University and The University of Texas at Austin have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the much-feared bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza.
Yerkes researchers find monkeys enjoy giving to others
Published August 25, 2008, 2:19 pm, EurekAlert!
( Emory University ) Researchers have shown capuchin monkeys, just like humans, find giving to be a satisfying experience. This finding comes on the coattails of a recent imaging study in humans that documented activity in reward centers of the brain after humans gave to charity. Empathy in seeing the pleasure of another's fortune is thought to be the impetus for sharing, a trait this study ...
That Student Loan, So Hard to Shake
Published August 25, 2008, 12:42 pm, The Hendersonville Times-News
More borrowers may begin to discover the harrowing consequences of reneging on student loans in the current economy.
Protein Structure Discovery Opens Door For Drugs To Fight Bird Flu, Other Influenza Epidemics
Published August 25, 2008, 11:14 am, Science Daily
Researchers have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the much-feared bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza. They have determined the three-dimensional structure of a site on an influenza A virus protein that binds to one of its human protein targets, thereby suppressing a person's natural defenses to the infection and paving the way for the virus to ...
NanoBio ready for Big Pharma
Published August 25, 2008, 2:02 am, Crain's Detroit Business
Ann Arbor-based NanoBio Corp.
That student loan, so hard to shake
Published August 25, 2008, 12:31 am, Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Published: Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 4:34 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 12:03 p.m. Tacoma, Wash. Alan Collinge handing out pamphlets. He says he’s “sort of the complaint box” for student loans.
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- The Colors Of Microbiology: Bacteria, Fungi & More: The color of micro-organism s (fungi, bacteria, algae, and such) is due to different colored substances in the cells. For instance, bacteria use variants of chlorophyll (the green in plants) but absorb light of different wavelengths creating natural colors of purple, pink, green, yellow, orange, and brown.
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- Robots: Bacteria-Prope lled Microrobots: In this episode we look at bacteria-prope lled microrobots which, in the future, could be used for sensing or drug delivery inside the liquid environments of the human body, such as the urinary tract, eyeball cavity, ear and cerebrospinal fluid. With Prof.
- Exploding bacteria method could fight superbugs: A novel way to make bacteria explode has been found that could lead to a new generation of drugs to fight superbugs.
- West Nile virus claims first NYC resident: New York City confirmed Thursday that it has recorded its first death connected with West Nile virus this year.
- Microbiology and Immunology On-line
Thu Aug 28
- CDC: Salmonella outbreak appears to be over: The government said Thursday that the salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 1,440 people appears to be over, but its ultimate source may never be known, partly because of shortcomings in the nation's food safety system.
- Microbe Library: teaching resource includes images, animations, videos, articles and reviews for undergraduate biology and microbiology education about the microbial world.
- Microbe World
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