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Students and teachers who enjoy playing with substances in their laboratories have found a way to bring vitamin A to people who don't normally like eating fruit or vegetables. They have come up with a new kind of bread loaded with beta-carotene, hoping that their breakthrough will help millions of people world... |
25 October 2011
07:13 GMT |
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High school science fairs are the perfect opportunity for scientists to showcase their inventions, which are in most cases useful for people who want to improve their lifestyle, while manifesting their care towards eco-friendly values. One ambitious project, coming from Oakland Park High School in Oakland Park, rai... |
20 October 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Once we decide the little we can do to give our planet a second chance is switching from plastic to reusable shopping bags, the first step of ‘going green’ is completed. However, according to a recently released study, not many of us ‘go green’ the right way.Specifically, most consumers never ... |
11 October 2011
03:22 GMT |
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In a new investigation on the spread and infection patterns displayed by antibiotic resistant bacteria – commonly known as superbugs – researchers discovered that their prevalence was higher in villages located along roads than in settlements that were out of reach, or difficult to get to.
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30 September 2011
06:53 GMT |
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A newly-engineered bacterium feature deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that does not include thymine, one of its four basic building blocks. Rather, the nucleotide was replaced with the synthetic unit 5-chlorouracil (c), which is usually toxic for other organisms. The four bases that usually make up DNA are adenine (A), cy... |
30 June 2011
04:42 GMT |
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Astrobiologists now believe that life may in fact be able to survive, or even thrive, in a much wider array of environments than previously thought. The conclusion was drawn from a study that shows microbes to be largely unaffected by the gravitational forces that act upon them. In other words, it would appear that t... |
26 April 2011
03:00 GMT |
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A team of scientists in Vietnam has discovered that the next big step in medical diagnostics could be magnetic nanoparticles of rust, iron oxide, coated with silicon dioxide, the material from which sand is formed.These nanoparticles are ranged from 29nm to 230 nm across, and can be used to attach antibodies to the v... |
31 January 2011
10:30 GMT |
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A group of experts announces the development of a new method for tracking down Escherichia coli, one of the most common microorganisms in the human body. At times, the bacteria can act up and cause problems, and so developing method for tracking and detecting it is very important.Researchers from the Purdue Universit... |
15 January 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Hamburger disease is a debilitating form of food poisoning, that might soon be forgotten thanks to new findings from a collaboration between international researchers, led by the French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), involving the Université de Montréal.This is the first research that... |
26 November 2010
09:56 GMT |
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According to a new study, common Escherichia coli infections that cause gastroenteritis can have negative, long-term health effects, that lead to people developing kidney problems, chronic high blood pressure and even heart diseases. People can develop gastroenteritis after drinking water that is contaminated with th... |
19 November 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, the number of drugs that have been extracted from plants has increased considerably, up to a point where the planet alone cannot handle producing so much of these chemicals. This is the situation we're in right now – we cannot rely on plant s to produce the helpful remedies, and ... |
1 October 2010
06:49 GMT |
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Using bacteria rather than petroleum, a team of expert was able to develop a method of producing acrylic acid – a key component for numerous plastic items that is usually derived from oil. According to the team that created the new technique, it would appear that using bacteria for converting sugar into acrylic... |
20 September 2010
04:06 GMT |
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In a finding that confirms the existence of altruism among microorganisms, researchers at the Boston University discovered recently that Escherichia coli bacteria take care of each other when faced with a common enemy.When subjected to the actions of an antibiotic, the microorganisms unite their forces, cooperating s... |
2 September 2010
06:29 GMT |
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Bacteria are extremely small organisms, and in many cases, they consist of only a few cells. There are species that only have a single cell, and therefore keeping it intact is a major priority. Over the course of their evolution, the organisms have set up a clever and ingenious defense mechanism against aggressive ox... |
21 November 2009
04:49 GMT |
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Experts at the Yale University have for the first time ever observed the motions of the common Escherichia Coli (E. coli) bacteria in a liquid. They determined that the microorganism moves in a kayak paddle-like motion, a find that could help further the field of pathogen study. Details of their research were publish... |
26 September 2009
05:23 GMT |
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A team of faculty members and undergraduate students from two universities in the United States has recently demonstrated clearly that computing within living bacterial cells is a distinct possibility, and, moreover, has managed to prove the concept in real-life. The “bacterial computers” showed the remar... |
24 July 2009
04:06 GMT |
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It now looks like bacteria have a natural ability to somehow "foresee" the future, in relation to their habitat and living conditions. Experiments on cultures of Escherichia coli (E. coli) showed that no matter the influences they are subjected to, bacteria still manage to adapt over short periods of time. In fact, s... |
6 October 2008
07:09 GMT |
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Some two decades ago researcher Richard Lenski of the Michigan State University started growing 12 laboratory populations out of a single Escherichia coli bacterium, which has evolved for over more than 44,000 generations ever since, thus accumulating even more genetic mutations. Although all 12 populations evolved s... |
11 June 2008
06:59 GMT |
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