A solution to sinusitis from the sea - 0 views
Cruise ship stranded - chicagotribune.com - 1 views
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which he described as "in excellent shape"
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"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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decided to add further payment of $500 a person to help compensate passengers for "very challenging circumstances" aboard the ship.
How Safe Is Our Meat? : NPR - 4 views
5 Free Influenza Fighting Apps For Facebook, Android & Twitter - 1 views
Holographic microscopy: Peering into living cells -- with neither dye nor fluophore - 0 views
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incredibly precise resolution of less than 100 nanometers, 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
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observe in real time the reaction of a cell that is subjected to any kind of stimulus
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low-intensity laser, the influence of the light or heat on the cell is minimal,
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'Quadruple helix' DNA discovered in human cells - 0 views
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our-stranded 'quadruple helix' DNA structures -- known as G-quadruplexes
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rich in the building block guanine
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over 10 years investigation by scientists to show these complex structures in vivo -- in living human cells
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Storm Clouds Crawling With Bacteria - 2 views
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Some of the bacterial species can seed the tiny ice crystals that lead to rain, suggesting they play a role in causing rain. Bacteria have been found as far up as 24.8 miles (40 kilometers) and may even survive as spores into space.
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This was a very interesting article - I had never thought of bacteria as the cause for some rain. This also would contribute to the growing issues with endospores.
Tomorrow's life-saving medications may currently be living at the bottom of the sea - 1 views
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new antibiotics to keep these diseases at bay.
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Bacteria that live in harmony with animals are a promising source. "
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bacteria carried by cone snails produce a chemical that is neuroactive,
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Scientists return to previously overlooked sources for new antibiotics and other medications - really portrays the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant microbes.
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This is great news not only for what we've overlooked, but future implications that deep-sea life has a lot to offer in antibiotics. Another important factor is that we know more about the surface of the moon then our own oceans, so gives us the opportunity and a reason for categorizing deep-sea life.
How Scientists Stopped Klebsiella Pneumoniae: Deadly Superbug Killed 6 At NIH Clinical ... - 1 views
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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.
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Infections at health care facilities are one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, claiming an estimated 99,000 lives a year.
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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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Antiseptics Used to Prevent Health Care Infections Might Cause Them. Oops. | Wired Scie... - 0 views
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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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