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5,616 results for: Bacteria

  1. Health & Medicine

    Getting the Bugs Out of Blood

    Researchers are developing methods for inactivating all sorts of pathogens that could be found in blood, including West Nile virus, an emerging infection recently brought to the United States from Africa.

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    In this article, I was surprised to read that chimeras harboring a mutation are not medically useful. Consider the value of cytokine-receptor mutations in humans, with respect to HIV. It’s likely that introducing some genetic mutations can inhibit viruses or bacteria in a host. Freda Wasserstein Robbins New Jersey City University Jersey City, N.J.

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  3. Materials Science

    The New Cavity Fighters

    Novel products could lead to fewer dates with the drill.

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  4. Pen-shaped device purifies water

    A battery-powered instrument the size and shape of a pen can quickly disinfect contaminated drinking water.

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  5. Migration may reawaken Lyme disease

    Lyme disease can hide in healthy-looking birds until the stress of migration drives it into a potentially infectious state.

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  6. Earth

    Living routes to toxic routs

    Scientists are developing novel techniques for removing perchlorate, a potentially carcinogenic pollutant, from water.

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    I was shocked to read that now we need to be concerned not only with genetically modified organisms that we can see, but code-transgressing organisms that are invisible. Altering Escherichia coli in this way seems very dangerous. E. coli is found in every human intestine and has a proven ability to swap genetic material with […]

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Worms offer the skinny on fat genes

    The identification of worm genes that regulate fat storage may provide insight into human obesity.

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  9. Keeping Bugs from Pumping Drugs

    Researchers hope that attacking the machinery some microbes use to pump antimicrobial agents out of their cells may help deal with the increasing problem of drug resistance.

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  10. Humans

    From the November 5, 1932, issue

    FIELD MUSEUM VISITORS SEE BIT OF ABYSSINIA Visitors to Chicago can make an effortless side trip to the wilds of Abyssinia by walking down the Carl Akeley Memorial Hall of African Animals in the Museum of Natural History. At the end, a remarkable new group of African mammals has been arranged so as to give […]

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Morbid Mystery Tour: Epidemic from China is encircling globe

    An outbreak of deadly pneumonia that apparently began in southern China spread in March to at least two other continents, including North America.

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  12. Earth

    Germs Begone: New technology cleans dangerous water

    For a penny per liter, people in the developing world should be able to remove most pathogens and toxic pollutants from their home drinking water.

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