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Protein synthesis: an epic on the cellular level - YouTube - 0 views

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RNA

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    With Loryn's help, I beat Alletia to this.
Casey Finnerty

Cruise ship stranded - chicagotribune.com - 1 views

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  • which he described as "in excellent shape"
  • "Seeing urine and feces sloshing in the halls, sleeping on the floor, nothing to eat, people fighting over food, $500? What's the emotional cost? You can't put money on that," Poret said.
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      Casey Finnerty on 14 Feb 13
       
      Looks like there's a difference of opinion.
Casey Finnerty

Brownian ratchets: Darwin's motors. [Nature. 2002] - PubMed - NCBI - 1 views

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microbiology metabolism respiration

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    This article is the citation for "Every day, we produce - and consume - about half our body weight in ATP!"
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How Scientists Stopped Klebsiella Pneumoniae: Deadly Superbug Killed 6 At NIH Clinical ... - 1 views

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microbiology antibiotic resistance

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  • 18 people harbored the dangerous germ, and six died of bloodstream infections from it. Another five made it through the outbreak only to die from the diseases that brought them to NIH's world-famous campus in the first place.
  • Infections at health care facilities are one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, claiming an estimated 99,000 lives a year.
  • KPC has emerged over the past decade to become a fast-growing threat in intensive care units, spreading easily between very ill people and killing half of those it sickens.
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  • KPC was transmitted three separate times from Patient No. 1, and then spread more widely.
  • Test after test never found the bug on hospital workers' hands.
  • "There's better technology becoming available for your hospital to prevent these bacteria from spreading, and this is what you should expect from your hospital," he said.
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Antiseptics Used to Prevent Health Care Infections Might Cause Them. Oops. | Wired Scie... - 0 views

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microbiology antimicrobial

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  • pre-operative antiseptics have never been examined for infection risk. They were grandfathered into FDA approval because they were on the market long before the FDA began assessing such products, as a result of expert testimony that they would kill any microbes that contaminated them.  That assumption turns out to have been incorrect.
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