Ophthalmologists recommend patients to use cleaning solutions for their contact lenses whenever they are not wearing them. But regardless of how often the lenses are cleaned, the risk of them being infected with pathogenic protozoa, like amoebas, remains the same. These unicellular organisms are extremely resilient a... |
23 October 2008
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It may seem like taken from the X-files, but the bug is real. Its last victim is a 14-year-old boy who waded in the Lake Havasu between Arizona and California in September 2007. This is the sixth victim in 2007 of a type of Amoeba that makes its way to the brain through the nasal cavity, and destroys it. Naegleria fo... |
28 September 2007
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There is no worse invention belonging to nature than pain. That gets even worse in the case of chronic pain, which unlike the acute pain linked with trauma, has no apparent physiological benefit and it is often called the "disease of pain". Complete and lasting relief of chronic pain is hard to achieve and often impl... |
16 July 2007
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We have gone very far with our imagination in the design of robots; but nature is continuously offering us new ideas. Now, what about an amoeba-like structure, squeezing through any hole, corner or crack?This is on the way. Dennis Hong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech College of Enginee... |
19 March 2007
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