Purdue creates new low-cost system to detect bacteria
... reduce the time it takes for industry to identify harmful organisms in food processing. Scientists in food-p...ethod, it takes less than five minutes to identify harmful organisms after they have grown in a petri dish. The analysis is faster than any other methods in ex...Deadly cone snails liven up Philadelphia Shell Show, Oct. 7-8
...duces many different venoms, most of which are not harmful to humans....Nicotine exposure during development leads to hearing problems
...gests to us precisely what aspect of smoking is so harmful in pregnancy when it comes to cognitive hearing de...e well-known physical under-development related to harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke, exposure to nicotine appears to be enough to cause serious problems on...Case Western Reserve University researchers find protein associated with brain cell death
...to contact with beta-amyloid fibrils that form the harmful brain plaque. The primary goal of this study was to evaluate potential signaling intermediates upstream from the oxidation, said the researchers. They had an interest in a group of signaling molecules (guanine nucleotides exchange factors) that a...Researchers uncover genetic clues to a common form of age-related dementia
...ase, a rare, inherited metabolic disorder in which harmful quantities of a fatty substance, called glucocerebroside, accumulate in the spleen, liver, lungs, bone marrow and, in some cases, the brain. All people with Gaucher disease have a deficiency of the GBA enzyme, which is involved in the breakdown and r...Fundacin BBVA and IDIBAPS reassess the intermittent treatment efficiency against malaria
...emature and low weighted delivery and the possible harmful effects immune response disorder in mothers. Parallely, this study assesses if this treatment improves the protection provided by mosquito nets if both prophylaxis strategies are combined. Results will be soon published and will be the basis for new ...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...n meat goes bad, however the growth of potentially harmful microorganisms has prompted researchers to examine new packaging methods to minimize microbial spoilage. In the study beef was contained using three different methods of modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP) and stored at 5 degrees Celsius for fourte...Caulerpa Taxifolia Eradication
...id DFG Director Ryan Broddrick. "Eradicating this harmful marine alga took quick action, collaboration and hard work from dedicated professionals and volunteers. The Southern California Caulerpa Action Team helped make this a success and a model for future actions of this kind." Officials continue to be c...Researchers unveil strategy for creating actively-programmed anti-cancer molecules
...s that are designed to recognize foreign pathogens harmful to the body; monoclonal antibodies are produced in the laboratory from a single cloned B-cell, the immune system cell that makes antibodies. "By bringing together chemistry and biology, our approach provides a way to break the traditional one anti...Saving the planet, from a mathematical perspective
..., conventional markets have failed to restrain our harmful activities, like overconsumption, because those markets do not adequately incorporate the social costs, the externalities. How can we resolve this situation and develop patterns of social behavior that hold out greater hope for a sustainable futu...Fat-generated hormone drives energetic capacity of muscle
...dria. The treatment also limited the production of harmful free radicals, or reactive oxygen species, a sign that the mitochondria were operating more efficiently. The current findings, together with earlier studies that showed that adiponectin increases glucose uptake from the blood stream, suggest that ...DDT in mothers linked to developmental delays in children, UC Berkeley study finds
...e benefits of nursing may outweigh the potentially harmful effects of DDT transmission through mother's milk....udy is one of the first to suggest that DDT may be harmful to child development. As such, it provides important health information for decision makers, said Br...Scientists develop a new diagnostic approach for carriers of recessive genetic disorders
...on. "If each of us is a carrier for three or four harmful recessive mutations, and if the expression levels of several hundred genes are altered for each of these mutations, then heterozygosity for recessive mutations plays a significant role in human variation and in the overall genetic architecture of com...Pomegranate juice helps keep PSA levels stable in men with prostate cancer
...ent or chemotherapy, both of which bring with them harmful side effects." The study appears in the July 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Cancer Research. "This is not a cure, but we may be able to change the way prostate cancer grows," Pantuc...Fruit flies aboard space shuttle subjects of UCF, UC Davis study on immunity and space
...ssiana," an approved organic pesticide that is not harmful to humans. Kimbrell, von Kalm and their colleagues will examine whether the reduced gravity makes the fungus more potent. Flies will be exposed to fungi from the shuttle and fungi kept in a lab, a move that will help determine if various effects ar...Landfills, chemical weapon debris possibly a good match, computer model suggests
...nagement officials determine what to do with these harmful materials if another terrorist attack occurs. "The results indicate that burial in a landfill will not result in a massive release of toxic chemicals," says Morton A. Barlaz, Ph.D., the study's corresponding author. "Our work can now be used by scie...How plants avoid feeling the burn
Too much sun for plants as well as people can be harmful to long-term health. But to avoid the botanical eq...n, which acts like sunscreen to ward off the sun's harmful rays. "We knew that biomolecules called carotenoids participate in this process of photoprotection, ...IVF identity fraud: A phenomenon that puts patients, children, and clinics at risk
... adulthood, it could also be potentially medically harmful for a person to have incorrect information about his genetic make-up." The team intend to send the results of their research to clinics in the UK and in Europe. They will carry out a further survey in a year's time to see if changes in practice hav...For diseases, when it comes to sharing a home, only close relatives will do
...t are needed to better understand and confront the harmful effects of diseases....U. of Colorado team solves mystery of carcinogenic mothballs
...y mothballs and some air freshener products may be harmful to humans," said Xue. "And, for the first time, we have developed a systematic way to screen virtually any potential cancer-causing chemical that may affect humans using these nematodes as animal models." In the study, caspase enzymes from both nem...