Microbiology
- Genetically Modified Gas Output From Cattle
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A growing population and greater wealth will mean more demand for meat in developing nations. That brings concern about air quality related to food production. Some emissions are direct, such as methane from ruminants, while others are secondary, such as ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 10:10pm
- Distributive Conjugal Transfer- The Advantages Of Sex, None Of The Downsides
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Sexual reproduction is costly. For starters, only half of the population can bear offspring so the other half has to work hard to make sure they're included in the future gene pool. Yet there is a payoff beyond the sex jokes sure to follow that state ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2013 - 7:58pm
- How Salmonella Resists Antibiotics And Antibacterial Soaps
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Salmonella bacteria is most frequently spread to humans by infected food and as they develop a resistance to one group of antibiotics they are also less susceptible to killing by other, unrelated antibiotics and a biocide used in common household items. R ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2013 - 12:12pm
- Biological Insecticides- Entomopathogenic Viruses Control Potato Moth
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New biological insecticides, which make use of “entomopathogenic” viruses that are harmful to insects, have emerged in recent years. The big advantage versus regular pesticides is that they are innocuous to man, vertebrae and plants, and environmental acti ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2013 - 2:16pm
- Dictyostelium Discoideum: World's Smallest Farmer Gets Cloned And Reveals A Key Mutation
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In 2011, a paper revealed that Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled organism, picks up edible bacteria, carries them to new locations and harvests them like crops- basically, it is the world's smallest farmer. (Nature 469, 393-396 doi:10.1038/nat ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2013 - 2:49pm
- Bacteria In Drinking Water- Not Always The Enemy
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Cleaner drinking water with fewer chemicals may be made possible using... bacteria. A research team studied four bacteria, Sphingobium, Xenophilus, Methylobacterium and Rhodococcus, found in a city's drinking water to see which combinations were more ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2013 - 10:02am
- Link between Induced Labor and Autism: New Evidence
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12.00 A study released on Monday found a link between induced or augmented labor, that is, the use of Pitocin, and autism. Women whose doctors decided to begin labor by administering Pitocin, an artificial form of oxytocin, or to speed up contractions wit ...
Blog Post - Susan Kuchinskas - Aug 15 2013 - 10:13am
- Breast Is Best: Mom's Mammary Microbiome
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Breast-feeding is back. When it comes to early establishment of gut and immune health for babies, 'breast is best' according to a new study of how 'good' bacteria arrive in babies' digestive systems. How babies acquire a populatio ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2013 - 8:01am
- Farm To Fork- Now With More Salmonella
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Tracing the transmission of individual strains from agricultural environments to humans through the food system is difficult because of the rapid evolution of resistance patterns in these bacteria. Resistance patterns change so quickly that it has been i ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2013 - 10:37am
- Strain Of MERS Coronavirus Engineered For Use In A Vaccine
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Scientists have developed a strain of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that could be used as a vaccine against the disease, according to an upcoming paper. Since MERS was first identified in June 2012, the World Health Organizat ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2013 - 1:38am