Microbes eat their way to better concrete
...re feasible than the currently available synthetic sealing materials," Bang said. "Our innovative approach in...lly innocuous biological products can be used as a sealing or caulking agent for the gaps in building structures, bioremediation means to confine contaminated ...Medical implants work better when you rough them up, study finds
...in turn forms a tissue capsule around the implant, sealing it off from the rest of the body. That seclusion can lead to a variety of serious problems, von Recum said. For instance, there are more than 300,000 hip and knee replacements each year in the United States. Such implants usually last for 10 to 12 ye...Patagonia's coastal wildlife receive a protective boost by Argentine government
...sm. The agreement marks a significant milestone in sealing political commitment to the Patagonia Coastal Zone Management Plan, which was spearheaded by the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Fundacin Patagonia Natural, an Argentine conservation group. The plan's objective is to bring tog...Cells use patch to heal tears, avoid destruction and disease
...face membrane at the site of the tear, effectively sealing it up in less than 30 seconds. In the minutes and hours following this acute repair, the cell will repair the resulting damage to its internal membranes. So the prediction of this patch hypothesis is a cell in our body which lacks internal membrane ...Ozone may provide environmentally safe protection for grains
... use ozone as a preventative treatment by possibly sealing of grain storage facilities with layers of ozone, much the way a jelly jar is capped with wax. The USDA National Research Initiative provided funding for this study....Ambitious plan to give sight to the blind
...kaging of the microsystem." 'Packaging' refers to sealing and securing a microdevice in place and linking it electronically and physically with its environment. Counterintuitively, the rods and cones of the retina lie beneath nerves, not above them, which makes it slightly easier to connect directly to the ...Cognitive testing reduces risks of procedure for brain arteriovenous malformations
...particular brain area if blood flow was blocked by sealing the vessel with N-butyl cyanoacrylate glue. Currently, the standard treatment is to seal off the feeder vessels to the AVM with the glue without physicians being able to tell in advance if the vessels they are blocking will cause irreversible damag...Munching microbes aid environment, oil industry
...ediments in a bottle, adding the SBF to be tested, sealing the bottle and incubating the contents. After 275 days if the sediments microbes have eaten a certain amount of the SBF, the fluid passes the test. You know how much of the fluid theyve digested by monitoring how much by-product is produced, usuall...Stopping internal bleeding without surgery
...ntly, techniques to stop bleeding include manually sealing off the vessel with stitches, using electrical current to generate heat which seals off blood vessels, or using a topical agent. However, all of these technologies require an incision in the skin in order to reach the bleeding. "The key issue," Vae...Microbial transport at Yellowstone: by land, sea or air?
...um carbonate results in shifting flows, and in the sealing off of some springs and the eruption of new vents. But the source of the microbes, and the means by which they colonize new springs, has remained unknown." To study the possible origins of microbial populations, Bonheyo and his colleagues geologi...Lung ailments come with the paycheck for wide swath of workers
... can also be a problem for roofers. As part of the sealing process, roofers now use polyurethane foam, which can provoke asthma. The same material in paints is the reason why auto-body shops are home to the largest number of work-place-induced asthma cases in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, acc...Bacteria That Gorge On Rotting Waste Can Break Down DDT
...l and moving it elsewhere is no longer acceptable, sealing it in alandfill site is now illegal in the US, and heating it in massive kilns to burnoff offending pesticides is expensive. The team at AstraZeneca has come up with an alternative, using localbacteria that feed on organic waste to break down......e that decomposes quickly todisappear while safely sealing away the rest in a capped landfill, he says. Ham says the country should be doing more to eliminate long-term problems withgarbage. "We've shown that we can accelerate decomposition over a shorter periodof time, rather than leaving it for our grandch...