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• in Technorati Women
  Public Pools Are Microbial Baths
  Public Pool Water May Not be as Safe as You Assume. No One Signed Up to Swim in a Toilet of Diluted Chlorine
  by goldensylph / on Jun 5, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Germs in the Office - Where the Microbes Hide
  A look at where germs hide in our daily spaces. Also looking at the reality (if any) of our concerns with hygiene
  by simplygreento / on May 23, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Panel Recommends Whooping Cough Vaccine for Adults
  A committee has issued guidelines recommending a whooping cough vaccine for adults over the age of 65.
  by jenna3967 / on Feb 23, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bacteria”

 

• Making Bacteria Make More Antibiotics More Quickly

  
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  An antibiotic has been found to stimulate its own production. The findings, to be published in PNAS, could make it easier to scale up antibiotic production for commercialisation. Scientists Dr Emma Sherwood and Professor Mervyn Bibb from the John Innes Centre were able to use their discovery of how the antibiotic is ...
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• Treating One Infection May Worsen Another

  
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  A study of wild mice, which typically carry several parasitic infections at a time, finds treating one infection may worsen another. Led by the University of Edinburgh, the study is the first of its kind to suggest multiple infections may compete with each other and attempts to eliminate one could give another a ...
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• Fermented Foods: Feeding Your Second Brain

  
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  There are 10 times more bacteria in your gut than total cells in your body. All those microscopic critters can either help or hurt. … Read More
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• How A Gene Acts That Regulates Factors Involved In Bacteria Pathogenicity

  
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  In a piece of work carried out by the Carbohydrate Metabolism Research Team of the Institute of Agrobiotechnology (a centre jointly owned by the NUP/UPNA-Public University of Navarre, the Spanish National Scientific Research Council-CSIC, and the Government of Navarre), the discovery has been made of the way in which ...
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• Can you make cream cheese with vinegar instead of bacteria?

  
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  by Old Shoe Woman Question by Jed Patrick Datu : Can you make cream cheese with vinegar instead of bacteria? I’d like to make cream cheese at home to cut costs, but I’m confused as to how the milk should be curdled. Most of the recipes I read say to use bacteria, but there are a few that instructs to heat ...
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• Reconstructing The Genome Of Medieval Strains Of The Leprosy Pathogen By Exhuming Centuries-Old Human Graves

  
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  Why was there a sudden drop in the incidence of leprosy at the end of the Middle Ages? To answer this question, biologists and archeologists reconstructed the genomes of medieval strains of the pathogen responsible for the disease, which they exhumed from centuries old human graves. Their results, published in the ...
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• News From Frontiers In Microbiology, Oncology, Neuroscience

  
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  Frontiers in Microbiology Insights into fungal communities in composts revealed by 454-pyrosequencing: Implications for human health and safety Composting is a process for converting waste into materials beneficial for plant growth through the action of microbes, especially of fungi which can break down large ...
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• New Technology Allows Fast, Reliable Pathogen Identification

  
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  Life-threatening bacterial infections cause tens of thousands of deaths every year in North America. Increasingly, many infections are resistant to first-line antibiotics. Unfortunately, current methods of culturing bacteria in the lab can take days to report the specific source of the infection, and even longer to ...
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• ATCC® Bacteriology Culture Guide

  
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  TheAmerican Type Culture Collection (ATCC) have produced a useful guide containinggeneral technical information regarding bacterial growth, propagation,preservation, and application. Theguide is available to those who register on the ATCC website. For details go to ATCC . Posted by Tim Sandle Pharmaceutical ...
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• Find Ways To Prevent Future Acne Breakouts

  
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  Don’t wash your face excessively if you suffer from acne, as it can exacerbate the problem. Using lukewarm water, wash your face gently with a mild soap no more than three times a day, and pat dry. This will stop any bacteria that causes acne from spreading. Remember that you will not see an improvement ...
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• Are You Eating Superbugs?

  
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  Pic credit: www.applegate.com I received an interesting and rather alarming report from the Environmental Working Group few days ago.  It’s about the antibiotic-resistant bacteria or superbugs contaminating the meat of livestock injected with an excessive (and unnecessary) amount of antibiotics. The ...
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• Genetic maps of ocean algae show bacteria-like flexibility

  
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  Smaller than a speck of dust, Emiliania huxleyi plays an outsized role in the world’s seas. Ranging from the polar oceans to the tropics, these free-floating photosynthetic algae remove carbon dioxide from the air, help supply the oxygen that we breathe, and form the base of marine food chains. When they ...
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• Breakthrough allows fast, reliable pathogen identification

  
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  Life-threatening bacterial infections cause tens of thousands of deaths every year in North America. Increasingly, many infections are resistant to first-line antibiotics. Unfortunately, current methods of culturing bacteria in the lab can take days to report the specific source of the infection, and even longer to ...
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• Xylitol: Learn More about This Natural Sweetener

  
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  Today, more and more people are dealing with health and dental problems due to the alarming growth and availability of fast food chains and sweets with too many food additives, fat and sugars. The good thing is that some food companies are now trying to fight this dilemma and waking up to the issue. Xylitol [...]
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• TB bacteria’s trash-eating inspires search for new drugs

  
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  When hijacking a garbage truck, one might as well make use of the trash. That logic drives how tuberculosis-causing bacteria feed, say Cornell scientists. They report that bacteria-infecting macrophages – garbage trucklike immune cells – slow their hosts’ trash-processing abilities to snack on trash they pick ...
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• Potential Zoonotic Disease-Transmission Sources Identified Based On Social Networks Tools

  
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  Spanish and US scientists have successfully identified animal species that can transmit more diseases to humans by using mathematical tools similar to those applied to the study of social networks like Facebook or Twitter. Their research - recently published in the prestigious journal PNAS - describes how ...
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• The First Caffeine-Addicted Bacteria: American Chemical Society Podcast

  
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  The latest episode in the American Chemical Societys (ACS) award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes bacteria that are "addicted" to caffeine in a way that promises practical uses ranging from decontamination of wastewater to bioproduction of medications for asthma. Based on a report ...
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• The Great Work of the Metal Lover: A strain of bacteria that POOPS GOLD

  
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  Historically, Magnum Opus, or The Great Work, was an alchemical process that incorporated a personal, spiritual and chemical method for creating the Philosopher’s Stone, a mysterious red colored substance that was capable of transmuting base matter into the noble metal of gold. Discovering the principals of the ...
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• The Viet Nam Resistance Project Tackles Looming Antibiotic Crisis

  
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  Researchers are collaborating with 16 hospitals in Vietnam to strengthen national evidence-based control of antibiotic use in the country.
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• Dirty Dog Diaries: Mr. Marcus Apologetic About Spreading STD, Says He Thought His Syphilis Was “Just A Rash” So He Threw Some Lotion On That Jawn And It “Looked Better” [Video]

  
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  SMH @ trying to treat syphilization with Carmex! The homies at Baller Alert got into a Twitter tiff with adult film star Mr. Marcus about his case of dirty peen and he decided to come clean about it with them . Here’s what he had to say: On Whether He Intentionally Infected His Co-Stars With Syphilis “I ...
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