New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
...and 10 deaths in Scotlandthis month, all linked to tainted meat; more than 60 confirmed cases ofinfections linked to unpasteurized fruit juice in late October; 9,400 cases offood poisoning in Japan during the Summer of 1995; and illnesses involvingsausage and hamburger meat contamination in the U.S. in 1993...Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
...e contaminated when it comes into contact with the tainted sands that remain. The basic idea behind in situ bioremediation is simple: If you provide naturally occurring bacteria in groundwater with enough air and the right type of food, then the microorganisms may respond by digesting the toxic chemicals a...Microchip Sensor Detects Bacteria
...nked to deaths resulting from the contamination of tainted hamburger. These patterns were then stamped on the surface of silicon, the same material used in computer chips, providing a sticky surface for bacteria to cling to. To detect E. coli on the sensor, the silicon chip was illuminated with...New Treatment Successful With Hepatitis C
...titis C is transmitted. They are: transfusionswith tainted blood, and contact with contaminated needles by IV drug users.Most of the tainted blood transfusions occurred before 1989 when blood banksbegan testing for hepatitis C. "There's a ...Putting A Price Tag On Pollution
...space satellites, Ghanem says. If a siteis already tainted bypollutants, his methods will help the land owner and public officials predictwhere and howquickly the contamination will move if it is not cleaned up. Ghanem believes his system could be put into use within three years. Then,it will be up top......andFrance may have developed the disease by eating tainted meat in the 1980s. But the insights the test offers into the biology of the prion proteinare consuming much of the researchers' attention. Previous research has revealedthat all mammals examined contain normal, benign prion protein, and it...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
...ted that by providing a new beecolony with feeders tainted with a marker chemical, thengradually moving the feeders farther from the hive andeventually removing them, bees can be trained to foragewherever they smell the chemical. If bees can be trained toseek TNT, the Montana team may attach small diodes ont...Bacteria That Gorge On Rotting Waste Can Break Down DDT
...hnique. The AstraZeneca researchers mixed tainted soil with large amounts of thewaste to make what was effectively a huge compost heap. The soil was tilled andaerated every few weeks, which provided both the nutrients and a cycle ofalternating anaerobic and aerobic conditions for local bacteria to d...Micro-organisms help protect drinking water from MTBE contamination
...y. However, he emphasizes, "Imagine how much more tainted surfacewater would be if microbes were not degrading it." The additives are converted primarily to harmless carbon dioxide through aprocess called mineralization, in which the microbes essentially consume theMTBE and TBA. Approximately 30 percent of...Cinnamon is lethal weapon against E. coli O157:H7
...oratory tests withcinnamon and apple juice heavily tainted with the bacteria. Presented at theInstitute of Food Technologists' 1999 Annual Meeting in Chicago on July 27, thestudy findings revealed that cinnamon is a lethal weapon against E. coli O157:H7 and may be able to help control it in unpasteurized ju...LSU Ag Center researchers look for better ways to assess pollution in Tangipahoa River
...s used to monitor contamination inwaterways can be tainted by test methods that appear to measure more than whatthey're expected to measure. They're finding high instances of false positives,where non-fecal coliforms also colonize at the higher temperatures. Theresearchers believe this occurs because the w...Aerosol pollutants in atmosphere likely masking global warming
...tralia. Other areas of the world are at least as tainted with aerosols. But pollution tracks from huge, nearly adjacent cities such as those in the Northeast United States, for example, are virtually invisible because of the perpetual pollution that hangs in the atmosphere, he said. "Rosenfeld's work...Iron chefs get nutritional boost cooking vegetables
...s already a health and hygiene requirement because tainted water supplies do not allow rinsing, or eating raw plant food....Researchers trace toxins from algal blooms through the marine food web in Monterey Bay
...in Monterey Bay on the organisms Silver found were tainted with domoic acid. While there are no documented ca...w different species are affected by consuming prey tainted with domoic acid, Silver said. The most well-documented cases of domoic acid poisoning in wildlife h...Competing fruit flies show evolution in action
... cages of flies with both normal fly food and food tainted with different amounts of cadmium. Some cages had less food available than others, increasing competition. At the beginning of the experiment, none of the flies would eat food with any amount of cadmium. However, in cages with high competition, some...Northern Vietnam drinking water contains dangerous arsenic levels
...n 11 million people are potentially exposed to the tainted water, according to Michael Berg, a research team ...am with an area between India and Bangladesh where tainted groundwater contributed to what a World Health Organization report called the "largest poisoning of ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: July 2001
...d States, and is commonly contracted by ingesting tainted oysters. In order to cause disease, though, the bacteria must first survive the highly acidic environment of the stomach, and it is the use of antacids that may help these bacteria get past the stomach and to the intestines where they can cause di...Researcher receives grant to help halt HIV replication
...infected cell reproduce the virus. Millions of HIV tainted cells can be launched from a single infected cell. Drugs such as AZT and drug combinations (cocktails) exist to inhibit reverse transcriptase and protease but, as of yet, there are no drugs to counter integrase. "Drugs that target integrase would b...Stigma and global health: Developing a research agenda
...te that reduces a person to one who is in some way tainted and can therefore be denigrated. It is a pervasive problem that affects health globally, threatening an individuals psychological and physical well-being. It prevents individuals from coming forward for diagnosis and impairs their ability to access......ect and identify bacteria such as E. coli that has tainted food or entered a surface water, and thereby improves the sensitivity and speed of detection," says Eric Hallerman, associate professor in fisheries and wildlife sciences at Virginia Tech. "This will help to determine whether E. coli in a stream came...