As experts begin to probe the issues raised by a potential trip to Mars in more depth, they start realizing that the actual flight itself and the problems related to constructing a proper vehicle to get there and back are only minor, in comparison to other issues. One of the problems is how nearly two years of co... |
30 October 2009
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A newly bioengineered peptide nanoparticle has the ability to pass through the blood-brain barrier and provide localized care to brain regions affected by meningitis, as well as by other antibiotics-resistant bacteria and pathogens. The breakthrough, accomplished by experts at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nano... |
29 June 2009
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Some of the world's most lethal superbugs, such as the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria, have the ability to start generating large amounts of toxins inside the host organisms, namely in humans, once they infect them. When that happens, the immune systems of sufferers become highly act... |
25 May 2009
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Research conducted on the International Space Station in 2006 and 2008 has finally revealed for certain something that virology experts have suspected for a long time, and namely that salmonella grows to be more or less dangerous depending on its environment. In the micro-gravity surroundings of the ISS, the bacteria... |
25 March 2009
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Although doctors and other health experts have yet to figure out exactly how harmful cell phones are to the human brain, one thing is for sure, their batteries are a real “death trap.” New studies show that the devices themselves carry numerous bacteria that can only live in that certain environment, but ... |
17 March 2009
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is posing increasing challenges to the US Health Department, which sees a rise in the number of US children infected with the very resistant bug each year. Health officials warn that the incidence of the bug is on the rise, and that most cases see the contamination o... |
20 January 2009
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Body art is controversial, and has many forms of manifestation, some more subtle, other more obvious, defying and even shocking. Tattoos are just one example of what happens when people take to their own skins to assert their personalities. Far from being a practice seen as exclusively reserved for sailors and bikers... |
13 June 2008
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Yeah, that's right! Your favorite website! Whatever that might be…a blog, some forum, a gallery …it can get you infected with a nasty virus. It's not that all the web designers out there are trying to get people's machines tainted with viruses, no, don't even think that! It's something else -... |
4 October 2007
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